Word: flags
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...WILD FLAG (188 pp.)-E. B. White -Houghton Mifflln...
...have carefully read your editorial of October 17, "Scylla and Charybdis." You state that the American Liberal should vote for a "mediocre Democrat rather than a mediocre Republican," because the Democratic Party for twelve years "carried the battle flag of liberalism" and has been "traditionally the champion of the 'little...
After tours of duty in the Pentagon and the Pacific, he took over command of the Sixth Army with headquarters at San Francisco's Presidio. There last week death came to Joseph Warren Stilwell, 63, after an operation on the liver. A 17-gun salute was fired, the flag was hauled down to the accompaniment of ruffles and flourishes. Uncle Joe would have snorted at such solemn ceremonial. But just 24 hours before he died, he had got his dying wish: on orders of War Secretary Patterson, he received the Combat Infantryman Badge...
...November elections pose an unpleasant question for the American Liberal--how to cast his vote where it will do the least harm to the Progressive movement. Republican campaign hoopla features undisguised "Back to Normalcy"; while the Democratic administration, which for 12 years carried the battle flag of Liberalism, is generaled by leaders whose political philosophy is almost indistinguishable from "Silent Cal" Republicanism. Neither party offers a constructive, integrated program for social or economic progress; and the strategy of both emphasizes catchy slogans at the expense of troublesome ideology...
...Broadway drama season got under way this fall with a revival of The Front Page and a new play called A Flag Is Born which swelled to five the current attractions in Manhattan by Journalist...