Word: plank
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Prof. VV. C. Bagley, Teachers College, Columbia University, staunch worker for the Sterling-Reed Bill, evoked "a storm of applause" by denouncing Democratic and Republican discourtesies to education. He was for supporting a Third Party en masse if its platform carried the proper plank...
Next, Newton D. Baker rose and offered an amendment to the League of Nations plank, which proposed immediate entry into the League without a referendum, as proposed in the majority report...
...Pattangall of Maine proposed an amendment to the Ku Klux Klan plank, specifically naming and denouncing the Klan. At the reading of this plank, the Convention began to get excited. The Anti-Klan group cheered loudly. A parade almost started, but Chairman Walsh discouraged it by rapping vigorously for order...
Delegate Alfred Lucking of Michigan, a lawyer of Henry Ford, came forward to argue for the majority League plank, saying: "If we provide for this referendum and lift the question out of politics, we will get 80% of the vote." Senator Jones of New Mexico spoke in the same tenor as the hall gradually emptied. The Senator's time ran out and he was stopped, the crowd applauding...
...following summary of the Democratic platform gives assertions in ordinary roman type; promises in italics. Beneath each plank in parenthesis is a condensation of the corresponding Republican plank, if any. Words and phrases of the originals are preserved as much as possible...