Word: half-staff
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: all
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
...55th birthday, Adolf Hitler spoke not a word. His adversaries, gathering their arms for the invasion blows, taunted him by radio. Cried the BBC: "Yes, flags out on Hitler's birthday! Flags out-at half-staff! It might be his last birthday...
...shiver ran through London last week. The great city, which had come through the blitz without an epidemic, had an outbreak of flu. The disease was mild but it spread like wildfire. Thousands of offices worked at half-staff, the Belgian Ambassador was sick abed, 100 London Bus Company employes and a dozen M.P.s stayed home. And in other parts of Britain the fever raged-the Bristol transport services and many war plants were partially paralyzed. The last report (for the week ending Nov. 27), from cities comprising half Britain's population, showed 375 deaths, more than three times...
...Norwegian flag, draped in black crape, was flown at half-staff last fortnight in some Swedish towns...
Sirs: In your issue of Jan. 29, I read on p. 19, . . ."The flags on the Capitol dropped to half-staff in the floodlit night." Are not all U. S. flags hauled down at sunset? D. C. ESTABROOK Midland, Mich...
Flags all over Rightist Spain went to half-staff early last week. This marked the first anniversary of the assassination in Madrid last year of Rightist Martyr No. i, onetime Finance Minister Jose Calvo Sotelo who was taken-for-a-ride by uniformed guards of the Madrid Government. Its head then as now was President Don Manuel Azana who last week was in Valencia. Few days after the Rightists mourned Calvo Sotelo, they celebrated with bullfights and fiestas last week the day on which they rose against Republicans, Socialists, Anarchists and Communists of Spain. Last week British-owned ore mines...