Word: flags
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Comrade Sergeant at Arms," said the commander, "you shall escort the candidates and place them before the flag...
...suits, gabardines and sports jackets, the men shuffled in. They stood with bowed heads as the chaplain prayed, listened to copybook homilies on justice, freedom, democracy. With each installment they received a memento: with justice, a red poppy and a copy of the U.S. Constitution; with freedom, a tiny flag; with democracy, the bronze Legion emblem. They raised their right arms-all except the veteran who had left his on Guadalcanal-to take the Legion oath. The commander spread his arms in a clerical gesture, intoned again: "Comrades, I welcome...
Thus last week Hollywood's Post No. 43, which observes the Legion lodge ritual down to the last wave of the flag, sponsored a new Legion post (No. 591) composed entirely of World War II veterans.* Post 43, the country's richest (famed members: Adolphe Menjou, Conrad Nagel) footed all bills, gave Post 591 the use of its building. The Legion, outdistanced at the start by the Veterans of Foreign Wars in the drive for World War II members (TIME, Oct. 4), had now begun to sign them up in earnest...
...India's capital this week there was a beginning of military unity. Over New Delhi, long a cauldron of inter-and intra-Allied intrigue for military power and prestige, floated the flag of Admiral the Lord Louis Mountbatten. The banner, a phoenix, centered on the Union Jack where the crosses of Saints George, Andrew and Patrick intersect, signified official constitution of the Allied Command in Southeast Asia. It implied more: that hereafter, in the "Battle of Delhi," the Jap was to be the only enemy...
...mean I got messenger dooty?" asked the one and only A.J., apparently forgetting that he is a drate big Bee man now. When the war is ever Bill (Flag) Asker is a lead pipe cinch to have trouble computing his income tax, because it is doubtful that he will ever got out of that 8, 7, 6, 5, 4, 3, 2, 1 rut he now is in. The government won't like it, Bill...