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...would be absolutely fatal," added the London Economist just before .the Casablanca conference, "if, for their heraldic emblem, the United Nations chose an ostrich dormant on a heap of sand...
...many another slogan. One morning they found that nearly all the red lights of the traffic signals had been decorated with the Cross of Lorraine. They tried to trace the origin of a stenciled angel with the caption ANGEL OVER MADAGASCAR. They collected by the thousands leaflets with the emblem and the added injunction: AUX ARMES, CITOYENS...
...hundred experts set up shop in the government hotel in Vichy. Men of art and literature went to work. The Marshal's profile, slogans and symbols appeared on stamps, china, ash trays, badges, hatbands, blotters, coins, bijoux and shaving mugs. A francisc, the Marshal's Frankish emblem, adorned all official documents. The Marshal's colors and cheerful slogans about healthy children appeared on milk bottles. Frenchmen wryly remembered World War I, when the Kaiser's picture had adorned the bottoms of chamber pots...
Chief Stites, like many another American male, keeps his religion in his womenfolks' name. His wife, daughter and sister are members of First Church; he is not. When he learned last spring that the church emblem had the place of honor, he swung into action and insisted that the two flags be reversed. Pastor Lewis Gaston Leary refused to make the change. So Chief Stites made it himself. Dr. Leary changed the flags right back. Last week the governing body of his congregation backed his stand that the "most sacred symbol of our religion should be second to nothing...
Cows and Pipe Organs. Fairchild shopped around and the burghers helped. Here was a plant wrapped in graveyard silence, there an empty garage. Artisans could be had for the asking. Soon many a converted machine shop began displaying the Fairchild emblem. Airplane parts in a trickle, then in a stream began flowing toward the main plant...