Word: flagging
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Manuel Quezon was a law student at Santo Tomas University in Manila (oldest under the U. S. flag) when handsome young Emilio Aguinaldo, tired of the evasion of U. S. officials who, he thought, should recognize him as President of the Philippine Provisional Republic, started a revolt to run the none too numerous U. S. expeditionary force out of the Islands. Since the U. S. authorities were chary of all Filipinos at that time, and hence offering no jobs in the Island Government to brown men, Manuel Quezon went into the bush for a while as a major on Aguinaldo...
...This nation will never fall beneath the conquering tread of an invader. It will never be lured to chaos and destruction by the red flag of Communism. If this Government is destined to follow the course of human history and, in the fullness of time, to fall into ruin and decay, it will perish as the result of official dishonesty and corruption within the State and nation...
...conservative, well-to-do Dutch family. His father became pastor of the Presbyterian Church of Brooklyn Heights, was notorious for his Southern sympathies before the Civil War. Once during that War a mob surrounded the van Dyke home, demanded that the pastor display the U. S. flag as proof of his loyalty, was dispersed by elders of the church. Mentioning such conflicts with obvious distaste, Tertius van Dyke concentrates on Henry van Dyke's idyllic boyhood, his carefree college years in Princeton, his travels in Europe, pictures him as the frail, pugnacious son of adoring parents...
...weeks ago when a Lynn teacher ordered her third-grade class to comply with Massachusetts' new patriotism laws and salute the flag, 8-year-old Carleton Nichols Jr. swallowed hard, remained in his seat while the class rose. "Please, Miss Brooks," he blurted, ''my father says I am not to salute the Devil's emblem." Carleton Nichols Sr. explained that as Jehovah's Witnesses he and his son could not serve both Jehovah and Country. Jehovah's Witnesses, otherwise known as the International Bible Students Association, count 2,500,000 followers in 34 nations...
...Shipmates Forever" has already been reviewed twice in these columns. Those who read the previous comments will have decided not to see it; all others are hereby warned. It concerns the navy and the dear old flag, spiced with crooning by Dick Powell and dancing by Ruby Keeler. Lewis Stone, an embodiment of patriotism as well as the hero's father, restrains his emotions bravely, although his voice weeps throughout. Ross Alexander is amusing, but his part is not sufficient to justify the rest of the picture. "Shipmates Forever" is a dull combination of saccharine romance and big-navy propaganda...