Word: flagging
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Europe circulated rumors that the Italian flag had already been hoisted over the Balearic Islands, that this Spanish territory had been taken by Italian forces as their payment for having helped the Whites. Wrathful in Rome this week, Dictator Mussolini, permitting himself to be quoted, categorically denied that he and Generalissimo Franco had ever made or even contemplated any deal involving the Balearics...
...Roosevelt spoke in kind. The occasion last week was the 50th anniversary of the most famed piece of sculpture in the Western Hemisphere: Frédéric Auguste Bartholdi's 152-ft. Statue of Liberty. The statue was decorated for its birthday with an enormous U. S. flag hanging from the upraised torch...
When Landon is elected, the College will be informed of the event by the appearance of a meteor in the western sky describing an are from south to north, following which an American flag will descend. If Roosevelt should win, the flag will be thrown away...
...patriotic fervor of Cavalcade, The Charge of the Light Brigade will be important to cinema students less for the solution it offers as to the riddles of the Light Brigade than for the mystery it deepens as to why the U. S. cinema industry can wave the British flag so much more effectively than its own. In this case, the specific credit for so doing goes, in addition to its authors, to Irish Actor Errol Flynn, Hungarian Director Michael Curtiz and U. S. Producer Hal Wallis, for whom The Charge of the Light Brigade represents the $1,000,000 climax...
...Howard completed the capture of Memphis by coming out in the open, handing Mr. Hammond his walking papers, admitting that any literate citizen among Memphis's 156,528 whites, 96,550 Negroes who wants to read a home-town paper must henceforth do so under the Scripps-Howard flag. Claiming "the largest circulation in the South," the Commercial Appeal brings Scripps-Howard 121,992 new daily readers, 138,124 new Sunday readers, to add to the Press-Scimitar...