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...plank of Publisher Robert Rutherford McCormick's Chicago Tribune Program for America is: "Restore Constitutional Government to Rhode Island." To Democrats in this tiniest of States the plank is decidedly distasteful. For many years they have unsuccessfully bucked: 1) the Rhode Island constitution; 2) the stout-muscled Republican machine of wealthy textile mill-owners. By the constitution, Providence, with nearly half the State's 687,000 citizens, can elect only four of its 42 Senators. 25 of its 100 House members. Other cities have representation far below their relative voting strength. The rural communities, stoutly Republican, have kept...
There could be found no more poignant example of contemporary youth's prematurely cynical attitude toward the failings of its elders than the organization recently founded at Princeton. Calling itself the Veterans of Future Wars, the organization advances as the chief plank of its platform the immediate payment of a bonus to all males who will be killed in the next war. A similar movement at Vassar, The Gold Star Mothers of the Veterans of Future Wars, declares that it intends to send delegates to view the future burying ground of the future dead...
...appears to Dr. Luke that his life work in the community is over. He is sadly boarding a boat to leave Moosetown for the last time when his most reliable patient, whose first six children Dr. Luke has brought into the world, runs up to the gang plank and requests his services...
Favored by the ladies and their boys as leading aircraft-armaments stocks are Rolls-Royce, Fairey and Hawker-Siddeley. Last week Rolls-Royce was so preoccupied with producing aircraft engines that swank motorists eager to plank down ?1,850 ($9,250) for the new 12-cylinder Rolls-Royce "Phantom III" were told that they cannot expect delivery before February...
...Another plank: 'We favor maintenance of the National credit by a Federal budget annually balanced...