Word: planked
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...there is no truth in that platform plank, there is no candor in it; it has not even got the essence of common everyday honesty and it was never intended to have...
...than our plain duty. . . . And now in this good year 1928, the major political parties have taken up the issue as a political one. The issue is clearly drawn between them not because of any material difference in the platform declarations but because one candidate has deliberately repudiated the plank on prohibition which his party had solemnly set forth. . . . Let it be clearly understood that we will fight to the bitter end the election of Alfred E. Smith, not because he is a member of the Catholic Church . . . but because he has gone out of his way to announce himself...
...effect on Smith sympathizers was one of satisfaction. But nailing a lie in a whispering campaign is much like nailing an ant on a rotten plank. The hammer blows shake out a lot of other ants and start them swarming furiously. A lot of the Brown Derby's best friends wished that the unhappy Warrior would leave lienailing to his assistants and confine himself to constructive campaigning...
...this: the Democratic gallant had, at the valet's suggestion, paid his compliments to the damsel but remained uncertain whether she was sleeping or weeping. What had happened morally was that Nominee Smith had not committed himself on the Farm Problem beyond the terms of the Democratic plank. At the same time he had apparently persuaded Farmers' Friend Peek to stop insisting on a thing called the Equalization...
That Frank O. Lowden, whom Mr. Peek backed strenuously but ineffectively for the Republican Presidential nomination, would bolt to Nominee Smith has been the wish-fathered hope of disgruntled farmers and opportunistic Democrats. They know that Mr. Lowden, farmer's advocate, is disgusted with the Republican farm plank and have pestered him for an insurgent declaration. Last week he was persuaded to speak at his summer home on one of the Thousand Islands of the St. Lawrence, but all he said was: "I will wholeheartedly cooperate with the next President of the U.S., whoever he may be, provided...