Word: planked
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...seventh plank in the platform of sweeping innovations follows: "The great province of a university such as Yale is to preserve the ingredients of of culture, learning, and scholarship, which are the rewards and results of a long life devoted to these things. Yale is fitted to teach and give these to a degree that younger institutions, which are better fitted for purely technical training cannot do. With the faculty, the plant, existent and proposed, the traditions and the willingness in the student body, these things may be assured so that Yale will become an enduring center of learning...
...eighth plank, that "the university should be kept from growing larger in the undergraduate departments", indicates that the enrollment problem has at last extended from Cambridge to New Haven...
...Sheppard of Texas: "Prohibition in the United States is both a permanency and a success." Dr. Ben Spence of Toronto: "Canada is bounded on the south by the Volstead Act, but it's somewhat leaky." Senator Willis of Ohio: "If any one comes to Cleveland with a wet plank and produces it, we'll use it as a skid to send him into Lake Erie." W. J. Bryan: "No matter which party wins, this country stays dry forever." More than a thousand delegates to the convention assembled in a driving rain before the White House and sang hymns...
...Significance. There are two distinct political situations which bear upon the charges and proposed investigation. In the Philippines the Collectivist Party, in control of the Legislature, has independence as a primary plank in its platform. Richard V. Oulahan, an able correspondent of The New York Times, has made an investigation of the situation in the Philippines, on the spot. His conclusion is that the Collectivist leaders use "independence" as a catchword, but really care only to oust General Wood and have him supplanted by someone who will allow them to run the Government in their own prodigal, inefficient...
Laborites. The Labor Party is in a curious position. They are against protection, but so are the Liberals, and for that matter some of the Conservatives. In these circumstances the ground has been cut from under their feet. They must therefore fall back upon their capital levy plank, which again is certain to prove less attractive to the proletariat electorate than Mr. Lloyd George's unemployment insurance coupled with his anti-protectionist stand. Nevertheless predictions were made that the Liberal Party would consolidate its influence in the country at the elections. It would seem, however, considering the fact that...