Word: flag
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...after his election last week. Since it is to the interest of the Commonwealth's first President, as well as to the U. S. and all other white powers in the Orient, that the Philippines shall not become a sort of Asiatic Balkans after 1946, when the U. S. flag comes down for the last time, the Islands are patently in need of a secure military defense system. To build it, Manuel Quezon on his last trip to Washington secured the services of the biggest military man in the U. S. ? General Douglas MacArthur. Last week, after the longest...
...fools, the tribesmen faded away. When the Scots ran out of the Pass, they saw half a dozen Mohmands scuttling up the gorges, a turbaned man in front of a village waving a white flag. It was a British victory. The job ended in the plain hard work of British empire-building. By transferring his supplies from trucks to mule and camel, General Auchinleck advanced his base into the Haji's plain. Then he rushed construction of a water line and the extension of the Gandab Road through the Pass. Said dispatches: "The nature of the territory and the skill...
...Bishop Hayes was head of all U. S. Catholic chaplains. Year after Cardinal Farley's death in 1918, Patrick Hayes was made an arch bishop. Had not an angry Irish mob from St. Patrick's Cathedral stoned the nearby Union Club in 1920 because it was flying a British flag, Archbishop Hayes might have been raised directly to the purple. But he got his red hat in 1924 and the Pope saluted him as caro fratello ("dear little brother...
...With bands blaring, salutes thundering from the minuscule Polish Navy, and a regiment of Poland's oversized, thoroughly potent Army stiff at attention, up the Pilsudski's mast climbed the flag of Poland. With her Diesel engines smoothly turning, the Dictator's namesake sailed forth on her maiden voyage to Manhattan, will provide U.S. citizens for the first time with a 100% modern liner on which they and their motor cars can sail direct to Poland in 87 days with Tourist as the top class ($168.50, exclusive of automobile...
...love of politicians for the flag, the home, motherhood and other sanctified institutions has been a favorite theme of U. S. satirists since Lowell wrote The Biglow Papers. That this particular vein of fun has run thin became apparent last week with the publication of a ponderously humorous volume, patterned on Machiavelli's The Prince, purporting to bring to aspiring officeseekers the same quality of sagacious instruction, supported by instances drawn from practical politics, that the cynical Italian gave to the despots of his day. A tedious book, overlong, repetitious, The Politician contains a few hilarious examples of Fourth...