Word: flagging
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...active politician, he worked hard through the American Legion for the Hoover nomination, campaigned through the Southwest, was the Hoovers' house guest at Inauguration. Favorite Hurley campaign expression: "A greater number of people have been happier under the American flag for a greater length of time than under the flag of any other nation." This phrase was ghost-written for him but, with characteristic onrushingness and vitality, he made...
From the far field of a war that was never a war returned to the U. S. last week 75 warriors?each in a flag-draped wooden box. Twenty-nine of them were nameless. Icy cold blew the dawn wind as the S. S. President Roosevelt churned slowly up New York harbor, but a balmy breeze it was compared to the blasts of the North Russian winter of 1918-19 when these U. S. soldiers died fighting the Red Army. After eleven years and by dint of diligent search by the Veterans of Foreign Wars their bodies had been exhumed...
Explorers are flag planters. But Explorer Richard Evelyn Byrd in his flight across unexplored Antarctica to the South Pole last week dropped no emblems of U. S. sovereignty (see page 64). Domain over the ice-locked continent at Earth's bleak nadir seemed likely to be determined not by fur-clad flag-planters but by silk-hatted diplomats...
...followed the casket as it was borne away from the White House to the beat of muffled drums for its last journey to Cedar Rapids, Iowa. Social engagements at the White House (including the Cabinet dinner and the Diplomatic reception) were cancelled for 30 days. The President ordered all flags half-staffed, broke an ancient tradition by having the White House flag lowered halfway to mourn the death of one other than a U. S. President...
...typified Solid Land. In Act II a band of Sioux chased a band of Pawnees, then performed a Sun Dance. Next came Spanish conquistadors, French Jesuits, Scouts Lewis and Clark, frontiersmen, Stephen A. Douglas. To end the pageant all joined in singing "The Star-Spangled Banner" and saluting the flag...