Word: planking
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Treasury stuck by him on the inflation issue, President Roosevelt last week did lose the support of his Party's elder statesman on government finance and his first choice for Secretary of the Treasury. Virginia's Senator Carter Glass. He it was who wrote the 1932 platform plank pledging the Democracy to a "sound currency at all hazards." During the campaign he arose from a sick-bed to deliver a deadly attack upon Herbert Hoover's fiscal program which won him 5,000 messages of congratulation. He turned down the Treasury portfolio because he thought he could...
...Mills had written the gold standard plank in the last Republican platform and now he was determined to see that the remnants of his party stood firmly on it. Into conference he went with Representatives Snell of New York and Luce of Massachusetts, Senators Reed of Pennsylvania and Walcott of Connecticut. Here & now, he told them, they must stand and fight for the traditional "hard money" principles of the Republican party. When they issued a manifesto, Mr. Mills declared he approved "every word of it." Excerpts...
...tight wire without cutting himself in two, is as exciting as ever, though he did miss it four times and have to give up at the first matinee. In the hush that falls before his act, the crackle of a peanut shell shakes the air like a splintered plank. Asked what he thinks about during his twice-daily moment of congealed concentration, he says: "I think what a hell of a responsibility...
From the moment President Roosevelt called for a copy of the Democratic platform, clipped out its beer plank, signed his name to it and sent it to Congress as a special message, there never was any serious doubt about the quick return of beer. Inescapable was the necessity for new revenue to help balance the Budget. Estimate of the Government's first year's income...
...revenue-only. In 1910 he damned the Payne-Aldrich law as "a miserable travesty, an ill-designed patchwork, a piece of brazen legislative jobbery" and in 1932 he flayed the Hawley-Smoot act as "utterly disastrous to our trade." Long an advocate of tariff reciprocity, he wrote that plank into the last Democratic platform. As President Roosevelt's Secretary of State his job will be to negotiate tariff treaties. Senator Hull's world views: "The mad pursuit of economic nationalism or aloofness-every nation striving to live unto itself-has proved utterly empty and disastrous. The practice...