Word: planking
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Ohio, which won the 1928 nomination with the slogan "Who But Hoover?" His appointment as Postmaster General the following year was altogether political with both eyes on 1932. Last week in Washington "General" Brown was in the thick of the only real controversy confronting the convention-a platform plank on Prohibition...
...standard method of altering the Constitution by Congress and the States? Should some tricky system of conventions, such as Secretary Hyde's "Missouri Compromise," be advocated? Or should a specific reform permitting State option be put forward? Out of such knotty lumber the G. O. P. plank had to be jig-sawed...
Another problem, which is probably less serious, although it has received more attention from the press, is that of the Prohibition plank. The administration is outspoken in its opposition to any form of direct repeal and in its acceptance of the "resubmission" proposal announced by Republican leaders some time ago. As equivocal as anyone could require, such a plank would be most helpful to pre-election party orators, and to all appearances there can be little question but that it will be included. But in the past week, a wave of pro-repeal sentiment has swept the country, staunchly supported...
...attempting a landing, a Freshman crew, which was caught in the river, during the storm, ran up on the float of the Weld boat house ripping off a plank, and injuring the shell...
Ninety per cent of the 1660 Harvard students who voted in the CRIMSON'S prohibition poll yesterday approved the proposal that the two major political parties should adopt a definite prohibition plank in their party platforms at the conventions in Chicago next month. Of that number 626, or about 42 per cent of those in favor of the suggestion, expressed the wish that the party platforms should advocate repeal of the prohibition...