Word: flagging
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...with a sore throat at Hyde Park. Sadly disappointed, but still hoping that Son Franklin Jr. might appear, the delegates sat down to listen to a speech by Pennsylvania's Governor George H. Earle. Midway in his speech a lanky youth of 19 stepped out on the flag-decked platform unannounced, sidled toward a chair. With a happy roar, the delegates leaped to their feet, charged up to the platform, shunted Governor Earle aside as they fought to shake the hand of Youngest Son John Roosevelt...
...After proclaiming U. S. neutrality exactly as President Washington had done in 1793. President Wilson could only plead with the nation to be neutral "in fact as well as in name ... in thought as well as in action." Any such neutrality, it soon appeared, was clearly impossible. Because the flag followed them wherever they went, U. S. citizens were free to risk not only their own but their nation's safety by traveling through war zones on belligerent ships. With its great navy, Britain blocked U. S. trade with Germany by search & seizure, took no U. S. lives...
...exactly what orders were being executed and why, and during every pause in the fight to acquaint their men with the status of the battle. Most exciting inci dents were the routing of a detachment by a hornet's nest, the flight of an umpire with a red flag from two belligerent cows, the capture of Hill 300 by the 27th Divi sion's swift advance and its subsequent loss because of: i) failure of communica tions, 2) an attack of real ptomaine poisoning which completely incapacitated two batteries...
...Common waited hopefully but the knitting bee caused no trouble even when the judges awarded one of the six prizes to a man. He was bald, tidy, dignified John Farnum Cann. His contribution - all the knitters made little chunks which were later pinned together in a large U. S. flag - was a red stripe...
...lynching by Red mobsters who had torn down the tricolor of France from his Sub-Prefecture and hoisted a Communist banner, to the vast delight of Moscow (see p. 24). While rioters surged around him singing the Internationale, M. Henry grabbed the lanyards and began hauling down the Red flag amid a hail of rivets, bolts and paving stones, one of which bloodied his head. Shouting "Vive la Patrie!", injured Sub-Prefect Henry not only shoved and bluffed his way out of the crowd without giving up the Red flag which he had seized but also rescued the French tricolor...