Word: flags
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...flag-draped stage in Atlantic City's Convention Hall, the object of her devotion grinned like a schoolboy, chomped his gum. For redheaded Walter Reuther this was a climax to years of labor wars, to sit-down strikes and bloody noses, to his noisy emergence as a New Day labor-statesman and labor-economist, to the strike at General Motors which had closed that company tight for 113 days. Last week 38-year-old Walter Reuther made his grab for the presidency of the C.I.O.'s United Auto Workers. On the floor of the cavernous, smoky hall...
...summer day in 1853, the port of Uraga was decked in holiday style. Brightly painted, flag-festooned screens lined the shore of lower Tokyo Bay. Soldiers paraded in burnished armor. Elegant emissaries of the Mikado in exquisite brocades, and velvets turned out to greet Commodore Matthew Perry as he debarked from the U.S. man-o'-war Susquehanna...
Male & Female? Winthrop Brooks's great grandfather, Henry Sand Brooks, founded the store in a frame building at Catherine and Cherry Streets in downtown Manhattan when James Monroe was president and the U.S. flag still had only 20 stars. By the time of the Civil War, the store (which had already moved part way uptown toward its present address at Madison Avenue and 44th Street) was "the largest establishment of its kind in the world." Naturally, Union Generals Ulysses S. Grant, Philip H. Sheridan, William Tecumseh Sherman and Joseph Hooker campaigned in Brooks Brothers' uniforms. Abraham Lincoln...
...This is the end of Blakesburg!" shrieked the school principal. "It is the end of Blake County, our State and our Republic! But I shall take the flag of this Republic with me and plant it in the Glory Land where it will bloom forever and forever...
...international group, often even benefited by lack of previous experience, fulfils every qualification. "The Last Chance" differs from its many predecessors not because it is trying to say something but because it succeeds is getting a great deal beyond a feeble waving of the studio copy of the Americas flag...