Word: flagging
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...high honor, which His Majesty the Emperor and King entrusted to me, to dedicate this memorial to the Guard Regiment of the Empress Augusta Victoria. . . . The chief duty for us all is the fulfillment of our duty and loyalty to the articles of war and the oath to the flag which we swore to His Majesty...
Last week these harangued ones arranged a ceremony for their "Bishop," presented him with a flag, a Bible. Judge Elbert H. Gary shook his hand. Secretary of State Kellogg, Owen D. Young sent telegrams. Said Wilkinson: "Men of Wall Street and Minnesota, men like Mr. Gary and Mr. Morgan, street-sweepers and passersby, I thank you very kindly...
There was the matter of an international spiritualist flag, and one was adopted, white with a golden sun (the astral body) spreading bright rays (psychic emanations) after the pattern of Japan's rising sun. There was the matter of mourning, and they passed a resolution denouncing rites by the "living" for the "dead" as "egotistical". There was laying of wreaths on the grave of the Unknown Soldier, ("They live always," read Sir Conan Doyle's wreath. "There is no death; there are no dead," read that of Mrs. M. D. Cadwallader of Chicago.); and there was denunciation...
...Congress of foreign Germans met in Berlin. The meeting was opened by Foreign Minister Stresemann. The foreign Germans outnationalisted the nationalists at home. A plebiscite of all Germans throughout the world was demanded on the question of having the old monarchist flag replace the republican emblem. The confiscation of German property by the Allies was denounced. Germans everywhere were urged to propagandize against the "War-guilt...
...November days to be signalized by presidential proclamation and known as American Educational Week (TIME, Nov. 24). Each day was given a name - Constitution Day, Patriotism Day, School and Teacher Day, etc. - and to each name were appended such phrases as "Ballots, not bullets," "One Constitution, one Union, one Flag, one History," "The red flag - danger," "The Dictionary is the beacon light to understanding...