Word: planking
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...party's platform. I stand squarely upon it?not with one foot on it and one foot on the floor. . . . Although I didn't succeed in getting into the platform a plank for insurance of bank deposits in banks which are members of the Federal Reserve system, I intend to work for such insurance, if elected. I propose to fight for an adequate tariff to protect the oil industry of this State. Twenty-one cents per barrel is wholly inadequate...
...Sham." As Dry as ever was Candidate McAdoo early last year before the Wet wave began to engulf national politics. At that time he solemnly pontificated: "Relegalizing liquor will not put food into a single hungry mouth. ... To make liquor the chief plank in the next national platform is to fight a sham battle because the 18th Amendment is here to stay and the quicker we recognize it the better." This year when the deluge started, Mr. McAdoo became less sure of the permanence of the 18th Amendment. He commenced mumbling the familiar weasel: "Referendum." After his party declared...
...regular party leader. On Prohibition the Senator wooed the Wets with talk of Resubmission, then the Drys with a declaration against Repeal. Most likely beneficiary of these Shortridgean straddles is Mr. Tubbs who stands to gain "regular" votes on the World Court, Wet votes on his outright Repeal plank. Energetic Candidate Tubbs has, during his canvass, startled many a back-countryman by dropping down realistically in remote corners of the State in his autogyro to hold rallies...
...President got back from the printer the first proofs of his address keynoting his campaign, took them to the Rapidan camp for weekend revision. Right up to the last minute only his closest political friends knew what position, if any, he would take on the tortuous Republican Prohibition plank...
...Nothing need be added to that [the Repeal plank], except that if the present Congress takes no action, I shall urge the new Congress to carry out these provisions...