Word: flags
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Chilean freighter Tolten was unluckier. A fortnight ago, after unloading her cargo at Baltimore, she was proceeding to New York. Chilean flag brightly illuminated, to load return cargo. A U.S. patrol boat ordered her to turn off her lights. Complying, she was presently torpedoed. Of her crew of 29, apparently only one lived to tell what had happened...
Argentina sent her sympathy to her bereaved fellow republics, politely refused to have anything to do with convoys, considering with some justification that a lighted neutral flag had proved her best protection...
...from the German Government. Vice Admiral Julio Allard, Commander in Chief and Director General of the Chilean Navy, announced himself satisfied that there had been "no deliberate intent" to sink a Chilean ship, explained: "Inasmuch as the ship was proceeding without lights . . . the submarine could not know under what flag the Tolten was navigating." While the Chilean Government drafted a note protesting to the U.S. for the fatal order to extinguish lights, reportedly serving formal notice that Chilean ships would under no circumstances run blacked out, Ambassador Rodolfo Michels Cavero in Washington demanded another ship to rush to Chile...
...although occasionally Mr. Riddle, for the good of racing, waives the stud fee for poor owners of mares with fine strains. Through 1941 he has sired 335 registered foals. His get had won 1,069 races for $2,970,428. Some of his more brilliant offspring: American Flag, Crusader, War Admiral, Mars, Clyde Van Dusen, Bateau, Scapa Flow, War Glory, Genie and Battleship. Big Red was the famed Seabiscuit's grandpa. Though his weight is up a little and his back has sagged a trifle, he still has plenty of life in him: this year he will take care...
...Remarkable Andrew (Paramount) is a refreshing fantasy. It brings back a posse of Founding Fathers and other once-vigorous Americans to mop up a pack of dishonest, flag-waving, 20th-century politicians...