Word: flagging
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...goatee and puffing on a long cheroot, he declared "We are all old men, without ambition to hold office, but we feel the responsibility of seeing that China is restored to normalcy, after which we will resign." Up Peking staffs ran the five-barred (red, yellow, blue, white & black) flag of the original Chinese Republic, founded in 1912 at Peking after the overthrow of the Manchu Dynasty, the staffs on which from 1927 to 1937 flew the red, white & blue flag of Chiang Kai-shek's Nanking Government...
...prosperous United States exerts directly and indirectly an immense beneficent force upon world affairs. Those who are keeping the flag of peace and free government flying in the old world have almost the right to ask that their comrades in the new world should, during these years of exceptional and not diminishing danger, set an example of strength and stability. There is one way above all others in which the United States can aid European democracies. Let her regain and maintain her normal prosperity...
...their dusty hats to clean. He was active in the Parent-Teacher Association of the Crew Street School, attended by his shy, 12-year-old daughter Dorothy. One day a little more than a year ago, the principal of Dorothy's school noticed she did not salute the flag when the other children did. "My father," explained the defiant little girl, "said it is a sin to salute the flag. He said the flag is an idol. If I salute the flag I cannot go to Heaven." To George Leoles' home went the principal, there learned...
...kept on smiling, put his daughter in a private school, was supported by Jehovah's Witnesses who sent him to the courts to seek "justice." Coercion, he pleaded from court to higher court, makes the flag salute an empty form, violates constitutional guarantees of religious liberty. Last week, still smiling but less jaunty, George Leoles said: "Some day God will show them their mistake." In Washington the U. S. Supreme Court had dismissed George Leoles' appeal "for the want of a substantial Federal question...
...Leoles case was the first involving the flag salute to reach the Supreme Court. Fortnight before, Federal Judge Albert B. Maris in Philadelphia had held a compulsory salute rule unconstitutional. Whether the highest court's ruling in the Leoles case was a final determination of the matter and doomed other pending appeals by Jehovah's Witnesses, the Witnesses' lawyers did not know, but they considered it unfavorable that in its decision the court cited the University of California case, in which it had ruled that students did not have the right to exemption from military training...