Word: planked
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Warren, earnest but uninspiring, continued to read the platform (see Page 4). After each plank was read, the audience nailed it down with applause, sufficient but not overpowering...
Many men went to Cleveland hoping, trying to put an anti-Ku Klux Klan plank in the Republican platform. They had prepared a plank which read thus...
...tariff plank, as passed at the Harvard Democratic convention, reads as follows...
President Eliot concluded his letter with a prophecy that neither of the two major parties will venture to put a wet plank into its platform at the coming Presidential election...
When the last plank in the platform has been nailed down, and the successful candidate has been forwarded a telegram of congratulation signed by the mock electorate in too, the nights' rest of these harassed statesmen should be slightly more recuperative than it has in the past. Although the decision of this Convention on Governor Smith's chances of carrying the arid west and the possibility of Mr. McAdoo's removing enough oil stains to be presentable will have no effect on the actions of the real Convention, it will provide a sort of search light with which acute minds...