Word: flagging
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...latest. The armed brig Glimpse, Jonas Dodge, Master, was three years out of Chog's Cove, R. I. She had had some close escapes from British cruisers; her crew had a fat share of prize money coming to them. Their last capture, a sloop flying the Spanish flag, they discovered too late was a U. S. vessel. Of the prize crew of four men put aboard her, one was drowned in a hurricane, one died of tropical fever; the other two were shipwrecked. When the Glimpse got safely home again Captain Dodge paid off the survivors, held the missing...
...days later the Arab mob whirled through Jaffa under the green flag of Allah...
Every Sunday morning for the past six years, a church pennant with a blue cross on a white field has fluttered above the U. S. flag on the flagpole of the Baptist Church in Queens Village, L. I. Local patriots have complained repeatedly but the church's minister, Rev. J. Earle Ed wards, felt justified. For nearly a century the U. S. Navy has done the same thing, running up a pennant during shipboard church services. Minister Edwards grew vexed last week when a D. A. R. pamphlet was sent him, citing a flag code promulgated...
...Federal law deals with displaying the U. S. flag, but the U. S. War Department has publicized the societies' code of 1923. In this the U. S. Navy practice is not mentioned. During the War many a church adopted the Navy pennant, for use indoors alongside the U. S. flag. Because few churches hoisted pennants outdoors the question of propriety bothered no one until last week. Then the Navy Department was asked for an opinion. It shied away, saying that it could make no ruling about inland churches. While the Federal Council's Secretary Samuel McCrea Cavert went...
...Holy Joe from adding a clarion call to the defense of American motherhood and the sanctity of the flat. No doubt, however, McKee's move took Laguardia by surprise, as it is questionable if he even recollects joining Professor Dewey's party, which intends sweeping to power under a flag of pale cerise...