Word: planking
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Senators Barbour and Kean of New Jersey informed President Hoover that their State's G. O. P. endorsed his renomination but demanded a Prohibition repeal plank in the national platform. President Hoover was silent. Washington is now completely satisfied that he will run again this year...
...recently installed a new senate government. The University of Wisconsin is considering changes which will cure the ills existent under a system of the old school. Students at DePauw are criticizing their government and agitation is being carried on to obliterate politics. The Daily Northwestern runs as a platform plank on its editorial page the program, "Develop a strong, central student governing body...
...future of German agriculture, and captured the farm vote. A new economic theory is being created for the Hitler polity. Interest will be abolished and the medium of exchange will be unsecured paper, but property will still be in private hands. Hatred of France is another popular plank in the platform...
...customary platform weasel of "strict enforcement." Fearful lest Boss William Scott Vare of Philadelphia reject him as a candidate for renomination in the April primaries. Senator Davis has now "regretfully reached the conclusion that the results hoped for under Prohibition have not materialized." Henceforth the Repeal-&-Return plank of the late Dwight Whitney Morrow will be his political guide...
...would not take the United States into the League, if I had the power to do so, until there is an informed and convinced majority sentiment in favor of that action in the United States. I am not in favor of a plank in the Democratic national platform urging our joining the League. I think it would be a great mistake to make a partisan issue of the matter. . . . Any opinion I entertain on the subject of America's relationship to the League of Nations must be recognized as merely an opinion such as any private citizen is entitled...