Word: flagging
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...University of Chicago adopted as an official song "Flag of Maroon" by Donald Randall Richberg, '01, Director of the National Emergency Council. The song is one of six written by Student Richberg who, no grind, also edited the University of Chicago Weekly, won a Varsity "C" for the mile walk, helped found the Order of the Dragon's Tooth (later Phi Gamma Delta), sang in the Glee Club, led cheers, was graduated with no honors. "Flag of Maroon...
...signalize Harrodsburg as the first permanent white settlement west of the Alleghenies. "We, too, are hewing out a commonwealth...which we hope will give to its people...the fulfillment of security, of freedom, of opportunity..." the President told an audience of "pioneers of 1934." He waved a little silk flag and seven girls pulled the veil off a huge stone frieze of pioneer figures which cost the Federal Government...
Still 140 mi. from his goal, Scott with Wilson, Bowers, Gates and Evans split off from the others for the final dash. They reached the Pole on Jan. 16, were staggered to find a black flag left by Amundsen. "Great God!" Scott wrote. "This is an awful place, and terrible enough for us to have labored to it without the reward of priority...
...excellence of the picture comes not from it's story. It is Mr. Leherer's delightful bundling techniques, the numerous rique remarks and situations Charles Ruggles' philosophical grumbling that sends the audience chuckling and wheezing. Mr Ruggles plays the comfort-loving father who cares little for church-going, flag waving or his wife's constant admonitions and advice. Mary Boland is given little opportunity to be her usual hysterical self, but she carries off the part of the dominating mother with comical sterness while Mr. Ruggles is stealing most of their scenes...
...command of Pennsylvania to such a bleak spot was a political massacre. On Election Eve in the tiny mining town of Kelayres, 600 Democrats hopeful of ending a 20-year Republican rule in their township decided to parade. A truckload of children and a man carrying a U. S. flag led a torchlight procession four blocks up the main street to the intersection where Republican Boss Joseph Bruno and his relatives have houses on three corners. On the fourth corner stands the Church of the Immaculate Conception...