Word: flags
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...blackout must be maintained at night and a Japanese flag hoisted each day on every house as "a token of obedience to the Japanese Empire...
...Foreign Minister Enrique Ruiz-Guiñazu announced that the German torpedoing of the Argentine freighter Rio Tercero (TIME, July 6) was a closed incident. Argentina had demanded: 1) an apology and assurances against repetition; 2) full indemnity; 3) a German salute to the Argentine flag. Germany had agreed to the first two, but had spurned the flag salute as an obsolete diplomatic practice unwelcome to the "new Germany...
...Flag Association announced that it would make awards to magazines for the best Fourth of July flag covers: "Cross of Honor" to House & Garden; "Patriotic Service Crosses" to TIME (best flag painting on a weekly), to Harper's Bazaar (best photograph on a monthly), to This Week (best photograph on a weekly...
Buenos Aires circles reported that Argentina's note to Germany on the Rio Tercero was stiff enough to save face, but in no way antagonistic. The Government was said to have demanded: 1) a German salute to the Argentine flag; 2) full damages and indemnities; 3) guarantees against repetition...
...picture goes overboard with an elaborate presentation of You're A Grand Old Flag. But the simple restaging of Cohan's conception of his cocky war song, Over There, is enough to send movie audiences straight off to battle-especially as gusty Songstress Frances Langford sings it (with Johnny Get Your Gun) to 1917's doughboys. The rest, down through one of Cohan's last stage appearances (in I'd Rather Be Right, 1937), is anticlimax...