Word: planked
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...three plank petition, summing up in substance yesterday's CRIMSON editorial on the subject, request that "the Student Council raise the allowance for an orchestra for the Jubilee to $1500; that tickets to the Jubilee be reduced at least a dollar in price; and that definite action be taken in an attempt to make arrangements for girls to spend the Jubilee weekend in Straus and Lionel...
...became more deeply involved in his crusade, Muñoz Marin became increasingly ironic about politicians. Once some social service workers asked him about the prevalence of homosexuality in Puerto Rico. "Can't be very popular," snorted the reformer, "or some political party would make it a plank in its platform." Program of the Popular Democratic Party includes abolition of the 1?-a-pound salt tax, the 2% sales tax, tax exemption for homes valued at $1,000 or less, restrictions on mortgage foreclosures, establishment of a social-security commission. Beyond that Muñoz Marin wants a reform...
Last week, in a long, apocalyptic editorial, Colonel McCormick virtually despaired of the U. S. As bitterest gesture of all the Tribune junked its eight-plank "Platform for Illinois and Chicago" (railroad electrification, a lakefront airport, tax cuts, etc.). Replacing it was a single apoplectic plank: Save Our Republic...
Dorothy Thompson walks the plank next Monday for deserting the Republican ship to endorse Roosevelt instead of Willkie last fall...
...will not participate in foreign wars and we will not send our army, naval, or air force to fight in foreign lands outside the Americas except in case of attack." So said Franklin Roosevelt on the eve of his election to a third term. That sentiment was a plank in the personal platform of almost every voter on November 4; there can be no doubt that "short of war" expressed the will of John Doe and family. It is this fact which makes the current furore over the Ellender Amendment to the Lease-Lend Bill seem a little incongruous...