Word: flag
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Every patriot knows that the U. S. flag should never touch ground or trail in water. In Newark, N. J. superpatriotic Scoutmaster Stephen F. Walker of Boy Scout Troop No. 77 shuddered last year when two aluminum reproductions of the great seal of the U. S. were embedded in the floor of Newark's Post Office Building, where heedless visitors trod on them. Scoutmaster Walker protested to the postmaster, to Postmaster General Farley, to Secretary of the Treasury Morgenthau, to the President of the U. S. Then he enrolled other superpatriots in his crusade, marched in a cordon...
...about the incident by reporters at Hyde Park, President Roosevelt recalled that superpatriots had once objected to a replica of the gold Presidential seal which was and is still embedded in the floor of the White House entry. On that occasion Roosevelt I decreed that the seal was no flag, could not be desecrated by visitors walking across...
...deportation proceedings during a U.S. lecture tour in 1935, young Mr. Strachey this year set out on another with the proofs of a new book, Hope in America, under his arm. Last week he sat cooling his heels, along with a Hungarian pianist and two Montenegrin stowaways, in the flag-draped detention room at Ellis Island...
Last week Colonel James Alfred Moss, president general of the U.S. Flag Association, piped up, explained all. The answer: "...If eating at a table, talking over the telephone, playing cards, cooking a meal or taking a bath, standing at attention would be forced and unnatural and therefore should not be done...
...Soviet soldiers, tanks and heavy guns were unable to do ten weeks ago-drive the Japanese off bleak & barren Changkufeng hill on the Siberian-Manchukuoan border-September's floods accomplished. Last week travelers from Manchukuo reported that Russian troops, after Japanese retired before the flood, planted their red flag atop the hill and began to pit it with fortifications...