Word: planked
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Common Fraud." He "got quite a laugh," he said, when he read the liberal labor plank in the 1944 GOPlatform, endorsed by the very men who "have personally spent years of effort and energy-and much money-in fighting every one of those [New Deal] laws in the Congress and in the press and in the courts. . . ." This, he said, was "a fair example of their insincerity and inconsistency." He described what he called the effort of the Republican Old Guard to switch labels with the New Deal as "the most obvious common or garden variety of fraud...
...historic step: they balked at the foreign policy views of a LaFollette. While Bob LaFollette sat in sullen silence at the word "enforce," Progressive platform writers endorsed a world organization "to enforce a just and democratic peace." This was a significant reversal of the LaFollette-inspired America Firstish plank adopted in May, and followed the worst licking the Wisconsin electorate ever gave the Progressivce party in a primary...
Following the balloting, the Platform committee presented its plank for adoption by the H.L.U. Discussion began on the first section of the plank entitled "Foreign Policy...
Internationally minded Senator Joe Ball of Minnesota complained of its "rubber words"; New Jersey's Willkieite Governor Walter E. Edge demanded it be made much stronger-meaning more internationalist. The sharpest criticism came from ex-Candidate Wendell Willkie. He compared the foreign-policy plank to the one on which Warren Harding ran in 1920: "The Republicans won the election of 1920. A Republican President, claiming that he in no way repudiated the Party's platform, immediately after the election announced that the League of Nations was dead. A Republican President elected under the proposed platform of 1944 could...
...plank had not been trimmed to please Willkie and his followers. Its aim was to go no further than, but just as far, as Franklin Roosevelt's recently announced postwar design, which likewise had something for the nationalists, something for the world-citizens (TIME, June...