Word: planking
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...buzz of voices ceased in the hotel room; the door opened; committeemen came out. "Did you ...?'' newsgatherers asked. "Was the Morrow plank . . . ? Did Mr. Morrow...
...plank which soon followed was a close paraphrase of that speech, only notable omission being Mr. Morrow's politically revolutionary aphorism: "Prohibition . . . is a question which constantly confuses moral principles with the art of government'' (TIME, May 26). Excerpts from the plank...
Senator Grundy: "I am not satisfied with the proposed new tariff law because I do not believe it is a fulfillment of the 1928 tariff plank of the Republican Party. . . . The method by which the bill was drawn up never met with my approval. ... In secret [committee] sessions the provisions were drawn up with little or no regard for the facts. ... I know of no other tariff revision where the administrative features were considered in the light of party politics. . . . On these principal reasons, I base my dissatisfaction with...
...Loami, Ill., W. H. Workman, 68, carved himself a set of false teeth from a hickory plank. Once a month he soaks them in olive...
...make nitrates for gunpowder. The T. R. I. A. favored acceptance of some private bid for the plant's use. Mr. Huston collected cash, sent more than $156,000 in four years to his Washington headquarters. In 1928 he had a large hand in writing the Muscle Shoals plank in both the Republican and Democratic platforms. His association lobbied for the Muscle Shoals bid of the American Cyanamid Co., under which Union Carbide Co. would get a share of surplus Muscle Shoals power...