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Ever since "Col. D. Streamer" (Harry Graham) wrote this callous little quatrain (Ruthless Rhymes for Heartless Homes') in 1901, British poetasters have amused themselves by writing variations on the theme. Recently London's weekly Time & Tide offered prizes for the best wartime ruthless rhyme. Three of the six prizewinners...
...year ago the Star-Times broke a double-streamer expose of faulty ammunition manufacture at the Government's St. Louis Ordnance Plant (world's biggest for small-arms ammunition, operated by United States Cartridge Co.). The Star-Times had nailed down its charges with employes' affidavits, had Byron Price's go-ahead to print...
...Chicago Sun provided sleuth-minded readers with all the clues they needed. First the Sun topped Page One with a streamer: NEWS DISPATCHES or VITAL IMPORTANCE IN TOMORROW'S CHICAGO SUN. Supplementing this was a two-column box plugging the imminence of big news, and next to the box a dispatch from the Sun's London Correspondent Frederick Kuh saying: ". . . inter-Allied negotiations [now are coming] to fruition. . . ." Finally the Sun featured a Berlin radio report that Roosevelt and Churchill had met to discuss North Africa...
...occasion Governor Jefferies will enrich the school's lavish regimental colors with a new set of eight battle-streamers marking the participation of Citadel men in as many operations in the Civil War. The school is also proud of a streamer (added in 1939) embroidered "Confederate States Army," for The Citadel is the nation's stanchest stronghold of the Grey traditions...
...temper of the Tribune's reporting the war & peace issue shows in its streamer page 1 headlines: WAR BLAMED ON U.S. ENVOYS WARN SENATE WARMONGERS WAR AGITATORS HIT BY HOLT HALT WAR DRIVE- WHEELER BARE MORE STEPS TO WAR HALIFAX STEERS F.D.R. BILL HOUSE PASSES DICTATOR BILL DRAFT ARMY 'GOING TO WAR' NEW WAR DEAL WITH CANADA BEAT DRUMS FOR CONVOYS DISCLOSE MORE TALK OF A.E.F. PACT PUSHES U.S. NEAR WAR GEN. JOHNSON: WAR IN 60 DAYS* VOTE NO WAR IN WISCONSIN LET PEOPLE DECIDE ON WAR FIGHT JAPS! BRITONS...