Word: flagless
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Dates: during 1932-1932
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...political occasion authorities ordered the flags down. Town Commissioner Washington Irving Lincoln Adams (distant relative) ordered them back up again. Hardly had they been placed out for a second time before the sun set and they had to be taken down again. After a drive through flagless streets, Secretary Adams snapped: "If Roosevelt is elected the homes and lives of 100,000,000 American people might be in jeopardy." By radio from Cincinnati Mrs. Alice Roosevelt Longworth delivered an anti-Roosevelt speech which she had written out in longhand. The Democratic campaign based on "distress and discontent" struck...
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