Word: flagging
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...that the President can start a war whenever he so desires. He has no need of declaring an arms embargo. History has borne this out amply. In 1846 President Polk found it easy enough; troops were sent into the disputed area, American blood was promptly and profusely shed, the flag was fired upon, and the national honor placed in joopardy. War was a foregone conclusion. Showing a little more finesse, President McKinley affected the same result. Afraid that the Democrats would capture the election on a war platform, he sent a message to Congress which advocated armed interference and tucked...
...pledge your holy word of honor that there is no flag here...
...Mustard Flag!" President von Hindenburg's pompous State Secretary, Dr. Otto Meissner was once secretary to "the George Washington of the German Republic," its first President, Friedrich Ebert (died 1925). One day last week Dr. Meissner picked up his telephone, heard a woman's voice weak with terror, the voice of Widow Ebert, a plump, pink, normally happy hausfrau...
Some Nazi Storm Troops had just raided her apartment brandishing pistols, said Widow Ebert. They had demanded, "Give us your mustard flag!" (A derisive Nazi term for the now abolished German Republican banner of black, red & gold...
...have no flag!" cried Son Friedrich Ebert Jr., trying to calm his mother. After huddling & whispering, the chief of the Nazi youths advanced upon Son Ebert...