Word: flag
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...legislators who passed the teachers' oath bill had had proper adult education the bill never would have been passed, for then those who passed the bill would have been able to think the matter through and would have known that loyalty does not consist of saluting the flag and signing the teachers' oath...
...continued, "I don't call the American Legion and the D. A. R. 'super patriots' or 'flag wavers' or any of the other names they are called by some people in this country. They are patriotic American organizations, and the people who criticize them don't know what they are talking about. They are positively trying to protect the fundamentals of American government...
That the fine record of U. S. seamen has been more dependent on the U. S. flag waving over them than on their own courage and ability startlingly appeared last week when U. S. seamen of the U. S. freighter Oregon slipped off her in San Pedro, Calif. Her owners said the aviation gasoline she carried was destined for Singapore, but she was bound via the Suez Canal and her gallant crew felt they should first consult Secretary of State Cordell Hull. While their walking delegate was doing so, the Oregon's owners offered the crew a 50% bonus...
...Mother is thrilling for a while. Along about the sixth scene, however, playgoers indifferent to or agnostic about Communism begin to feel that the production is solemnly, insufferably pretentious, that the narrative of the old woman who loses a son and a husband but still gallantly waves the red flag has not been written up to its exciting possibilities...
...Kankakee, Ill., trying to flag an automobile roaring into the path of an oncoming locomotive, Crossing Watchman Sam Piuppo, 59, was struck and killed by the car which cleared the front of the locomotive by inches, roared...