Word: flags
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Past. The Revolution that was begun in 1917 by a handful of leather-coated working men and pallid intellectuals waving the red flag, by 1942 had congealed into a party government that has remained in power longer than any other major party in the world. It began under the leadership of Vladimir Ilyich Lenin, on Marxist principles of a moneyless economy which challenged the right to accumulate wealth by private initiative...
...Philadelphia to form a new organization called the American Council for Judaism. Its credo, as stated by Rabbi Wolsey: "[We] will seek to identify and define the Jew as a member of a religious community and nothing else. . . . We are definitely opposed to a Jewish State, a Jewish flag or a Jewish Army...
...Rewards. Last week Art Tilt was a happy man-his company was going great guns, an Army-Navy E flag floated over his neat, compact factory, his employes had just surprised their tough-guy boss with a gold trophy and a diamond-studded pin to show their "friendship and esteem [in] recognition of 38 years of continuous leadership unmarred by labor strife or serious dispute." Chicagoans chuckled, too, over the latest story of the famed Tilt temper. In a purple rage because his Packard was hard to start one cold Sunday morning, Art jumped out of the car, grabbed...
...Indian Ocean one of them was intercepted recently by Allied naval forces. At first the 8,000-ton cargo ship hoisted a neutral flag, gave the name of a neutral vessel, but in misspelling the name tipped its game. When Allied warships opened fire the crew scuttled the ship. Seventy-eight Germans were captured. From them it was learned that the ship, en route from Japan to Germany with a valuable cargo, was a blockade runner...
...last organized Confederate resist ance east of the Mississippi was offered by Citadel cadets who engaged a band of raiders near Williamston, S.C. on May 9, 1865 - just a month after Robert E. Lee's surrender at Appomattox, where (says tradition) another Citadel man carried the flag of truce. Of The Citadel's 224 living graduates in 1864, some 200 served as Confederate officers...