Word: plank
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...introduce their platform welfare promises one by one. If the President vetoed the bills, the Democrats would cry that Republicans placed more emphasis on budget balancing than on public needs. As a kind of sideshow to this main act, two Northern Republicans vowed to submit the Democratic civil-rights plank as a bill, hoping to watch Southern Democrats squirm...
Democrats in Washington happily interpreted Kefauver's lopsided victory as a sign that the strong Democratic platform plank on civil rights was not going to hurt them seriously, at least in the middle states. Added a pleased and triumphant Estes Kefauver: "It is clear that the detractors of the South, who tried to say we are a backward people, have been proven wrong...
...Democratic Civil-Rights Plank: You shouldn't send a kid up on a plank like that...
...After Maughmer became president of the Houston Police Officers Association in 1949, he lobbied luxuriantly in the state capitol. Meanwhile, Mrs. Maughmer was ringleading Houston's McCarthylike Minute Women. In 1956 she got herself on the school board in the most vicious campaign in Houston history. Her segregationist plank: "I'd rather go to jail than see my kids go to school with niggers." As parliamentarian, Bertie often controlled the board. Between sessions of getting books banned, she attacked any form of federal aid to schools. She helped cut off reimbursements for teachers attending meetings of the National...
Rubottom, the man nominally responsible for the earlier policy as head of the State Department's Latin American desk, was forced to walk the plank. He now becomes U.S. Ambassador to Argentina, will be succeeded by Thomas C. Mann, 47, another career diplomat. The U.S. is resolved (and committed by treaty) not to intervene militarily in Cuba. Raul Castro says, "We're not going to touch" the $76 million U.S. naval base at Guantanamo...