Word: plank
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...George, immediately after landing in England from his U. S. visit, began a campaign against tariff protection and the Baldwin Ministry. He is not an out-and-out Free Trader, but Free Trade has become a convenient political weapon for him and he has seized it. With this plank in his platform, the hidden one of national unemployment insurance, and the popularity he has derived in Britain from his U. S. tour, Mr. George is in a strong position-stronger than Mr. Asquith, who is not very popular. If the Liberal Party is to unite, it would seem that...
...what may well be considered the forthcoming election, there are two Parties which will be prominent: Labor, which will have capital levy as its main plank; Liberal, united under Lloyd George, or more probably a center party (which would let in Mr. George's Conservative as well as his Liberal supporters), whose main plank will be a Government unemployment insurance scheme. This is expected to be more popular with the masses than Labor's capital levy. Moreover, Mr. George's American tour is adjudged to be of prime political importance to British politics...
...Bobb Scholarship, Adelbert Joseph Ver Plank...
With Bryan out of the way, the " next problem "?according to the Herald?is "how to keep Wilson from running off the reservation. ... To placate Wilson after rejecting his League plank is one of the most serious problems before the Democrats. They fear the nomination of his son-in-law, William G. McAdoo, would not solve the problem...
...enemies said, something of a demagogue, bitter and sectional. But he was fearless, and brilliant in attack on the floor of the House. The tariff was his home territory and he knew it like the proverbial book. He made his name as a Democrat by attacking the free lumber plank in the Democratic platform of 1908. He strengthened his posi-tion in the following year by his attack on "Cannonism" and the tariff...