Word: flagging
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...told about a new pamphlet he was having printed: "Old Glory will still be on the cover, but in addition to that I've put down below it another picture with the international flag flying above Old Glory, with a serpent on it. And the text will say that all blue noses will strive through the League of Nations, the World Court and other instruments for foreign entanglements, to tear our flag down, and that a vote for foreign entanglements is a vote for frequent wars...
...Minister James Barry Munnik Hertzog and former Prime Minister Jan Christiaan Smuts, now leader of the opposition in the House of Assembly (lower House) at Cape Town, agreed that henceforth the Union Jack should be flown from official buildings in all large towns. In addition a new South African flag, in every respect co-equal with the Union Jack, was decided upon...
...national flag consists of three broad horizontal stripes of orange, white & blue. In the white stripe, from left to right, are a small Union Jack, an Orange Free State flag, and a Transvaal Vierkleur flag, the latter two being republican emblems. The three flags occupy one-third of the white stripe or one-ninth of the whole flag and embody five colors: red, white, blue, orange, green...
Then Judge Carpenter rose from his seat. He pointed at the U.S. flag over his courtroom door and sternly said to Mme. Schwimmer...
...cannot be a halfway citizen under that flag. . . . We have a great deal to give when we confer citizenship upon an alien. It is like admitting a new stockholder, and he or she should be willing to do what the other stockholders have obligated themselves to do. We must forget our various views on pacifism when war comes...