Word: planked
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...route to Kansas City, Senator Lloyd M. Bentson (D-Tex.), a presidential hopeful, said "The convention has to result in a compromise--no one gets what they want all the time." He said he hopes to see an economic plank come out of the convention since "That's the biggest issue" facing the country at this time...
...court firmly rejected Nixon's argument that as head of the co-equal Executive Branch of the Government, he was entitled under the Constitution to determine finally the scope of his own privilege. On the contrary, the main theoretical plank of the court's opinion was the assertion of its supremacy in all matters of the law. The Judiciary's power to interpret the law, the decision said, "can no more be shared with the Executive Branch than the Chief Executive, for example, can share with the Judiciary the veto power, or the Congress share with...
Joseph F. Crangle, 42. "I grew up believing that the Democratic Party was the instrument for the common good, to correct social ills," says New York State's Democratic chairman, an issue-oriented politician. At the 1968 Democratic Convention, Crangle presented the only minority plank to be adopted: abolition of the unit rule, which opened the way to democratizing the delegate-selection process. A nonsmoking teetotaler who studied for the priesthood in his youth, Crangle was named chairman of the Erie County Democrats at 32. In 1971 he became state chairman and ever since has been trying to unify...
...Plank Plan...
...Harvard debaters responded by proposing a two-plank counterplan in their first speech--that Richard Nixon shall resign within thirty days, and that a three-person self-perpetuation board consisting of themselves be formed to administer the presidency...