Word: sealed
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Every patriot knows that the U. S. flag should never touch ground or trail in water. In Newark, N. J. superpatriotic Scoutmaster Stephen F. Walker of Boy Scout Troop No. 77 shuddered last year when two aluminum reproductions of the great seal of the U. S. were embedded in the floor of Newark's Post Office Building, where heedless visitors trod on them. Scoutmaster Walker protested to the postmaster, to Postmaster General Farley, to Secretary of the Treasury Morgenthau, to the President of the U. S. Then he enrolled other superpatriots in his crusade, marched in a cordon...
When questioned about the incident by reporters at Hyde Park, President Roosevelt recalled that superpatriots had once objected to a replica of the gold Presidential seal which was and is still embedded in the floor of the White House entry. On that occasion Roosevelt I decreed that the seal was no flag, could not be desecrated by visitors walking across...
...Austen Chamberlain who became Foreign Secretary in 1924. Few days later the British Sirdar in Egypt, Sir Lee Stack, was assassinated and Mr. Chamberlain traded a settlement of that outrage for which Britain was paid $2,500,000 by Egypt. The influence of Son Austen as Lord Privy Seal and Leader in the House of Commons was decisive in achieving exactly what Father Joseph had advocated and died devoutly wishing: the Irish Free State, and a peace which has now lasted between Britain and Ireland for more than a decade...
Observant members of Pierson College have noticed with somewhat a sense of relief the removal of a Harvard seal which withstood the hostile gaze of faithful Elis for many a lonely month...
This seeming paradox existed due to the fact, that Abraham Pierson was a student from the Charles River Emporium.... Since at the time of the founding of the College there was no official seal, it was thought appropriate to place the arms of the former prexy's alma mater in a position which cried out for some specimen of the heraldic...