Word: flag
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Chicago's suburban Oak Park 100 American Legionaries with overseas caps and a big U. S. flag appeared at the First Congregational Church to censor an address to its young peoples' society by Illinois' Communist Gubernatorial Candidate Samuel T. Hammersmark. Also present were some 500 Oak Park matrons & men who hissed, booed, yowled, screamed "Liar!" and "Murderer" so lustily that the Legionaries were forced to reverse their role, protect the speaker from his audience. Up stood the church's Pastor Albert Buckner Coe at meeting's end, said to Red Hammersmark...
...Conservative Prime Minister Stanley Baldwin and his Cabinet was what the annual Conservative Party Conference paradoxically amounted to last week at Margate. By enduring British standards, it is radical for His Majesty's Government, when challenged by a Germany hungry to regain colonies now under the British flag, to shilly-shally evasively as the Prime Minister has done, bleating that his Cabinet "has not considered this matter." It was Conservative last week, and rousingly Conservative in a robust Victorian sense, when more than 1,000 of the 1,400 Margate Conference delegates leaped to their feet brandishing agenda papers...
Meantime, through the flag-decked streets of Cleveland last week tramped a veterans' army far greater than the Denver procession of 1883. Of the American Legion's 900,000 members, some 200,000 had swarmed to its annual convention and an estimated 70,000 marched in the 11½-hr. parade. Eighteen years out of the World War, the veterans were in the prime of their early 40's, marched with firm steps, heads up. Founded in Paris after the Armistice as a patriotic non-political body, it was in the process of becoming the greatest Treasury...
...defense forces as well as its civil bureaucracy, must have attached to him a Japanese adviser. Under the third Japanese "mild general principle" there must be "immediately created" an autonomous North China separate from the rest of China in every respect except that it may fly the Chinese flag while controlled by Japanese. Admiral Sato, when asked if Japan would enforce Chiang's acceptance of these principles by a naval ultimatum, expressionlessly replied: "That may be the only way. It is the solution that first occurs to the simple military mind. If any civilian has a better suggestion...
Thus when Paul Ward invents a new refrigerator only to have his invention stolen, he plans to sue his swindlers until Hannah dissuades him. When he complains that her advice of nonresistance means hoisting the white flag, she cries "White banners!", shows him that moving on to other achievements, turning the other cheek, is more heroic than fighting. Although few readers are likely to accept her counsel unequivocally, it certainly works out well in Paul's case. He writes a life of Spenser that wins him academic acclaim, later invents a better refrigerator that makes his fortune...