Word: flagging
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...last Admirals' conference in British Eastern waters was 13 years ago. Host last week in Singapore harbor aboard his flagship cruiser Kent was a rare and racy Tipperary-blooded quarter decker, Admiral Sir Frederic Charles Dreyer. He was Flag Captain in the Battle of Jutland to Admiral Jellicoe of the Grand Fleet, today commands the China Station...
...help the Nazi winter relief fund, Storm Troopers broke up a Monarchists' birthday eve ball in Berlin. Other troopers cut short a ceremonial toast of onetime Imperial Army officers to Wilhelm's birthday while still others patrolled Berlin's streets denuding house fronts of the Imperial flag. Said a Nazi leader, with an eye to Nazi history books: "Hitler is the restorer of authority from above and discipline from below. He is the restorer of self-respect and hope, but no restorer of kings...
...wrinkly little infant who was to be named George Michael Cohan let out his first faint caw, firecrackers were popping in Providence, R. I. Bands were playing. It was July 4, 1878,* a birthday worthy of one who was to be famed as the greatest and most successful flag-waver in the U. S. show business. This week George M. Cohan is to wave a flag in Manhattan's Waldorf-Astoria Hotel to introduce a song called "What a Man!" in honor of President Roosevelt's 52nd birthday. The Manhattan celebration will be one of 5,000 throughout...
...plenty of ideas. He was credited with introducing the "funeral church," motorized hearses, scattering ashes from airplanes, high-pressure publicity ("A simple and refined service, suitable for all persons"). He had nine Rolls-Royces and three chauffeurs, a $400,000 yacht on which he once jocosely ran up a flag bearing skull & crossbones...
...biggest. In two years he ran up its deposits from 12 to 30 million, by the simple expedient (according to Winkler) of quadrupling its gold re serve. The other secret of his success was caution: he made his piles not by financial forays but by carrying a flag of truce. A year after his death (1918) the National City Bank had ballooned to billion-dollar size. Stillman's only intimate was Lawyer John W. Sterling, crotchety bachelor who carried punctuality to the split second, fussiness to the point of boycotting his club for exactly one week when anything gave...