Word: flags
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...House of Representatives passed and sent to the Senate a quick measure, approved by U. S. Attorney General Murphy, making it a crime to operate a gambling ship under U. S. registry. Tony Stralla had an answer for that one. If need be, said he, he would fly the flag of Japan...
...seldom raced until midsummer, except for occasional overnight races to test their ability. By last week the following had shown promise of keen competition in Saratoga's big two-year-old stakes: Cornelius Vanderbilt ("Sonny") Whitney's Flight Command, Alfred Gwynne Vanderbilt's Now What, Arnold Hanger's Roman Flag, Colonel Edward R. Bradley's Bimelech, and Millsdale Stable's Andy...
Laguna's flag-bedecked festival site last week was a fenced-in, eucalyptus-shaded vacant lot two blocks from the sea. Under a big top near the puppet-show tent such bright California lights as Millard Sheets, William Wendt, William Griffith, Frank Cuprien, Ruth Peabody hung their pictures; the works of lesser lights were displayed in sideshow booths forming an open square. In one booth free oils and modeling clay tempted visitors to test their talent. In another a fortune teller revealed if they had any to test...
There was a tense moment, he reported, before noon at the Hôtel des Invalides, before the Governor surrendered to 20,000 citizens headed by the French Guard. The Governor de Launay, displayed the white flag and opened the gates, but drew up the drawbridge after soldiers and citizens entered, and his troops opened fire, killing 30. After three hours of cannonading the walls were breached and "The great and important scene now followed. The GOVERNOR, the PRINCE, the FORT MAJOR and Officers were conveyed to the HOTEL DE VILLE, and after a SHORT TRIAL . . . M. DE LAUNAY...
...train at Bled, Yugoslavia, last week hopped Premier George Kiosseivanoff, of Bulgaria. This Balkan statesman had just visited Berlin, where he had passed through flag-lined streets, been put up at sumptuous Bellevue Castle and been feasted by Fuhrer Hitler at the Chancellery. At Bled, a Yugoslav summer resort, M. Kiosseivanoff had a reception less toney, but just as friendly. High point of his stop-over was a visit to Castle Brno, where he chatted long and amiably with the polished, cultured Prince Paul, First Regent of Yugoslavia...