Word: flags
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Spirit, an eight-minute cartoon short, opens with the indignant Duck throbbing to a radio voice telling of the new spirit in the U.S. Exhorts the radio: "Your country needs you!" The pupils of Donald's eyes literally flag-wave as he implores the radio to tell him how he can help. Says the inexorable machine: "By paying your income...
...spread over Knudsen's face. The door opened; tall, portly, spectacled Nelson walked in. "Hello, Bill." he said. Said Knudsen: "Hello, Don. Congratulations." There was a moment's silence, then Knudsen said: "Don-I guess this defense program is a relay race. I've carried the flag as far as I can go. You've got to carry it the rest of the way. I hand...
Carole Lombard was in a hurry to get home. For days the movies' best screwball comedienne had been traveling crosscountry patriotically, plugging defense bonds. In Indianapolis she had lent a hand at flag-raisings, jampacked the city's big Cadle Tabernacle for a rally, where she led The Star-Spangled Banner. The blonde actress-who had often said she was glad she was not beautiful-in one day raised $2,000,000. Indianapolis called her Defense Bond Saleslady No. 1. Said plain-spoken Miss Lombard: "I'm like the barker at a carnival...
...Army. Last week, 5,500 Axis troops in the narrow canyon of Halfâya Pass, isolated in a bomb-torn pocket on the eastern edge of the desert battlefield, gave up. Dusty, thirsty, hungry and 2,200 miles from their main body, they ran up the white flag, surrendered unconditionally to Major General Pierre de Viller's South African and Free French forces...
...death in 1916, renamed it Jehovah's Witnesses, built it into a group claiming two million members. Rutherford was jailed in World War I for advocating war resistance, was released on appeal. The Witnesses got into trouble before War II for refusing to salute the U.S. flag. They believe that the Biblical prophecies control world happenings, Armageddon is drawing near, and the Prophets alone will live forever. Rutherford died in a Spanish mansion he had prepared for King David, Gideon, Samson, other Biblical luminaries. He landscaped it with palm and olive trees "so these princes of the universe will...