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...fashioned high-tariff plank of the Republicans was matched with a Democratic promise "to seek by mutual agreement the lowering of . . . tariff barriers." That meant that President Roosevelt would continue to adjust customs rates over the bargain counter of reciprocal agreements with other countries...
Accordingly, Senator Borah was allowed to write the anti-League of Nations and antimonopoly planks (although the two sharpest paragraphs of his monopoly plank were cut out in the final version). Two other planks he was allowed to veto: any reference to the gold standard in the money plank and any suggestion of a constitutional amendment to authorize State control of minimum wages. William Allen White had also to make concessions to various non-Landon members of the platform Committee. Thus with Editor White functioning as a diplomat rather than as a liberal, Landon views on the platform were largely...
Amendment. Another idea to excite the conventioneers also began in an editorial. Two days after the Supreme Court denied New York's right to set minimum wages for women workers (TiME, June 8), William Allen White came out in his Emporia Gazette for a platform plank favoring a constitutional amendment to overcome that ban. Clarioned he: "The Supreme Court has honestly even if tragically called our attention to the need of a power in government which now obviously is restricted. That need is the issue of the hour. The Republican convention must not sidestep it. ... The Republican Party must...
...Other planks must be written defining the distinction between governmental and private enterprise, advocating the return of relief to local agencies, making completely intelligible the party's stand on foreign affairs, as well as a host of other problems. Not unimportant either politically or economically will be the farm plank, and the substitution of a foreign-export subsidy for the present "conservation" subsidy, it must be remembered, offers no real solution...
...chief plank in my platform," says Candidate Shinners, ''is to coax big industries to come to Milwaukee and take people off the streets and keep them out of the penitentiaries...