Word: flags
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...bewildered, heartbroken : "I have done my best to repudiate wrong and evil in governmental affairs. .. . I have utterly failed. . . . Righteousness has been crucified and the people I love have condemned the things I held most sacred. ... I have lived according to my philosophy of government and now . . . the flag of that philosophy [is] trailing in defeat. ... I accept the . . . final verdict...
...first Allied bombers bore leaflets, imprinted with the American flag and a proclamation from Lieut. General Dwight David Eisenhower to the 252,000 Frenchmen, Arabs and Berbers of the town (see cut). A destroyer nosed past the barges across the entrance to the harbor, darted up to one of the docks, disgorged a small force of U.S. Rangers, who scurried toward the big, white French Admiralty Building on the waterfront. When the docks were clear the destroyer threw a few shells, starting great fires, and dashed out of the harbor...
First a lone British destroyer, then heavier fleet units moved into the city's anchorage. The Union Jack was the first Allied flag up over Algiers' docks. (At first the Tricolor continued to fly over Governor Yves Charles Chatel's residence. The warships did not long have the harbor in peace: the afternoon after Algiers' surrender, German Stukas (presumably from Sicily or Sardinia) attacked. Twelve miles offshore Axis, British and U.S. planes mixed in the first of many battles which will be fought before the Allies have unquestioned command of the Mediterranean...
...like: his career had been vividly reported to millions while he lived. Five months before death (of cancer) Cohan had seen a runoff of his own cinemapotheosis, Yankee Doodle Dandy (TIME, June 22), with James Cagney outdoodling the actor he portrayed. The picture turned the jauntiness and the flag-waving, the Cohan tunes and the Cohan tricks, into a nostalgic tintype of an era. No one typified that era more than Cohan himself...
...Joining at 26 with the late Sam H. Harris in as profitable a partnership as Broadway has ever known, Cohan clicked off such popular hits as Little Johnny Jones, Get-Rich-Quick Wallingford, The Miracle Man. He tossed off song hits like You're a Grand Old Flag, Yankee Doodle Boy, Give My Regards to Broadway. Sometimes he had six or seven productions a year-writing one while rehearsing another and acting in a third. During World War I he wrote Over There. After 15 years with Sam Harris, he was reputed to be worth ten millions...