Word: planking
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Senate also passed the bill, which went to Governor Smith for his signature. The Governor did not pledge himself to the repeal of the law in his election campaign, but it is understood that he will sign the repealing measure because he ran on a light wine and beer plank...
...Another plank in The Monitor's platform for a better and a brighter world is the World Court...
...politics he was a Republican and staunch party man. When Roosevelt started the Progressive party, he said he would rather " quit politics than split his party." On the other hand, he supported President Wilson on the League of Nations issue, denouncing the irreconcilables. He helped write the Republican tariff plank and yet attacked the Fordney-McCumber Tariff for its wool duties. An enemy of the Non-Partisan League in the Northwest, an opponent of the soldier bonus (although one of the two civil war veterans in the Senate), a supporter of the Dyer anti-lynching bill and an advocate...
...reported that some of President Harding's vacation advisers urged him to inaugurate an "open shop " campaign with a view to making the so-called "American plan " of labor policy a Republican plank in the next election. President Gompers of the A. F. of L. immediately issued an emphatic protest in which he compared the " open shop " advocates to the Italian Fascisti and wondered who would be their Mussolini...
Anent Senator Henry Cabot Lodge: "Without any preliminary greeting Mr. Lodge said: 'Mr. Hanna, I insist on a positive declaration for a gold-standard plank in the platform.'Hanna looked up and said: ' Who in hell are you ?' Lodge answered: 'Senator Henry Cabot Lodge, of Massachusetts.' ' Well, Senator Henry Cabot Lodge of Massachusetts, you can go plumb to hell. You have nothing to say about it,' replied Mr. Hanna. Lodge said: 'All right, sir, I will make my fight on the floor of the convention.' 'I don't care a damn where you make your fight,' replied Hanna."The chapter...