Word: flags
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...party. Presidential electors would be bound to support the party's nominees -unless a state party convention ordered them to vote for another candidate before they went to the Electoral College. The bill had Senator Harry Byrd's blessing. That night somebody raised a Confederate flag over Virginia's Capitol...
...Whitehall: proceed without delay to British Honduras. Taking Sir William aboard at historic Cartagena, the Sheffield raced northwest for Belize. Over from Jamaica, by a second order, steamed the 9,850-ton cruiser H.M.S. Devonshire with a detachment of the Gloucestershire Regiment. The occasion for this showing of the flag: "Possible incidents staged by irresponsible elements in neighboring Guatemala...
When a fish bites, it seems, the "tip-up" waves a bright red flag in the air. The sportsman then leaps up, snatches his booty, and again retires to his point of vantage. This whole procedure is guaranteed to be simultaneousy thrilling and restful...
Invitation to the Souls. But for a moment last week the festival tumult subsided. Through the tent city moved a truck with a raised platform draped in India's tricolor flag. On top rode an earthenware brown urn. Within it were most of the ashes of Mohandas Gandhi. Chatter was hushed as the catafalque moved slowly past...
...encouraging extremists, were deposed. During communal riots last year, every Moslem in Alwar was either killed or driven out of the state. When Gandhi's death was announced, saffron-robed holy men had distributed sweets, shouting "Gandhi mar; bhagwa jhenda zindabad!" ("Gandhi is dead; long live the Hindu flag...