The American City, Volume 29Arthur Hastings Grant, Harold Sinley Buttenheim Buttenheim Publishing Corporation, 1923 - Cities and towns |
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Page 618 - When used to cover a casket, the Flag should be placed so that the union is at the head and over the left shoulder. The Flag should not be lowered into the grave nor allowed to touch the ground. The casket should be carried foot first.
Page 618 - States should be suspended vertically with the union to the north in an east and west street or to the east in a north and south street.
Page 451 - Without the slightest exaggeration we may assert that, with very few exceptions, the city governments of the United States are the worst in Christendom — • the most expensive, the most inefficient, and the most corrupt.
Page 619 - The salute to the flag In the moving column should be rendered at the moment the flag passes. SEC. 6. That when the national anthem Is played and the flag Is not displayed, all present should stand and face toward the music. Those In uniform should salute at the first note of the anthem, retaining this position until the last note. All others should stand at attention, men removing the headdress. When the flag is displayed, all present should face the flag and salute.
Page 618 - States is displayed from a staff projecting horizontally or at an angle from the window sill, balcony, or front of a building, the union of the flag should be placed at the peak of the staff unless the flag is at half staff.
Page 2 - Therefore, when we build, let us think that we build forever. Let it not be for present delight, nor for present use alone; let it be such work as our descendants will thank us for, and let us think, as we lay stone on stone, that a time is to come when those stones will be held sacred because our hands have touched them, and that men will say as they look upon the labor and wrought...
Page 551 - Juvenile-Court Standards: Report of the Committee Appointed by the Children's Bureau, August, 1921, to formulate Juvenile-Court Standards, adopted by a conference held under the auspices of the Children's Bureau and the National Probation Association, Washington, DC, May 16, 1923.
Page 451 - There is no denying that the government of cities is the one conspicuous failure of the United States.
Page 619 - States. 2 Do not dip the flag of the United States to any person or any thing. The regimental color, state flag, organization or institutional flag will render this honor.
Page 618 - When displayed either horizontally or vertically against a wall, the union should be uppermost and to the flag's own right; that is, to the observer's left.