Word: planked
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...only six hours' sleep, that the Committee had been in session until 6:00 a.m. that morning, that it had been in session until 6:30 the morning previous. (Joseph Tumulty leaned over and said to Will Rogers: "Homer is telling us a bedtime story.") But there were two planks on which the Committee could not agree: the League of Nations plank and one other "dealing with the question of religious freedom." This last they were afraid to report for fear of seriously splitting the Convention. In brief, the Committee wanted until three in the afternoon for further consideration...
...Executive Secretary of the Workers' Party. There was Duncan McDonald, representative of the radical Illinois Labor Party. There was Alexander Howat who had been ejected from the United Mine Workers for radical activities. There was Alice Paul of the National Woman's Party, ready to present a plank for absolute equality for women, and scamper off to the Democratic Convention as soon as it was adopted...
...that as it may, Senator Watson, when asked if he favored an anti-Klan plank, asseverated...
...glaring indictment. It carried the inference that the party which opposed the Klan could win the support of half the people in the country. But the Republican Party was unpersuaded. It chose to temporize and inserted a plank of no particular meaning...
...retinue estimated at 60 souls, moved into Cleveland shortly before the Convention. He established headquarters in a private house on Euclid Avenue, which according to some accounts was rented, ac cording to others borrowed of a prominent Klansman. From there he conducted his efforts against an anti-Klan plank. His comparative success is at tested by the plank quoted above...