Word: flagging
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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There is a law which requires boats to fly certain flags under certain circumstances, but a situation arose last Sunday night which annoyed the officials of the Eastern Steamship Line and perplexed the most astute sea lawyers. The situation, one of many perplexing situations which arose during the week-end, due, perhaps to the natural disappearance of reticence, perhaps to the fact that certain Dunster Funsters finished Mid-years on Wednesday, involved the appearance of an unknown and hitherto unnoted flag on the Atlantic coast, floating gracefully from the mast of Eastern's dignified Saint John...
Investigation threw the officials of the boat into an uproar. There were veiled threats regarding the throwing of college boys into the brig and taking them back to New York. Passengers snickered. Finally, however, the new flag was retrieved and revealed to one and all for what it was, the most important half of a pair of striped and vividly coloured pajamas that have adorned the closet and person of a Dunster Senior for lo these many months...
...luncheon honoring Lady Lindsay, wife of the British Ambassador, was canceled, the White House Congressional reception postponed a fortnight. The affection which the Wartime Assistant Secretary of the Navy conceived for Britain's "Sailor King" was not, however, enough to cause him to half-staff the White House flag, as Roosevelt I did when the British Ambassador died in Washington in 1902. Then T. R. explained that it was not because Lord Pauncefote had been a distinguished diplomat, but because he was a "damned good fellow...
...proud to notice a white man," confirmed that at the first sound of an Italian bombing plane Ethiopian officers dive for the nearest Red Cross shelter. A prized Stallings snapshot shows the Ducal Palace of Emperor Haile Selassie's younger son Makonnen at Harar flying the Red Cross flag although not used for any Red Cross purpose...
...cried out: "We are going into war upon the command of gold. ... I would like to say to this war god, 'You shall not coin into gold the lifeblood of my brethren.' ... I feel that we are about to put the dollar sign upon the American flag." Senator Norris' words were not history. They were the judgment of a man upon contemporary events...