Word: planking
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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With a new plank stating the Union's refusal to take part in a war on foreign soil, the Vassar peace platform was revised by the H.S.U. in their general meeting last night in Lowell House Common Room...
...addition to the peace proposal provided for definite action against sweeping the United States into a foreign war, and although Robert E. Lane '38 supported the plank as a new first point of the platform, it was relegated to second position...
Among other measures, the H.S.U. supported the peace demonstration to the tune of 49-5, and rejected the Ludlow amendment, 40-24. These were points five and six respectively. They expressed their opposition to a withdrawal of troops in China, point four. and supported the third plank providing for abolition of the M-day and of the sky-rocketing military budget...
Meanwhile it was believed that a special Faculty investigating committee was considering establishing the annual on a permanent basis. Provision to appoint a member of the Law School to the presidency of the album committee is the chief plank in their program...
Leftist Propaganda. Since the beginning of the Spanish Civil War, the Leftist Government has made it a point to defend, honor and employ the arts. A plank in any Socialist government's platform, this was especially urgent in a government working for dear life to form an army, educate a public, enlist foreign sympathies. During the first year of siege the Fifth Regiment in Madrid had the duty of packing off to Valencia the art treasures of the capital (TIME, Feb. 1, 1937).* Public statues, including Madrid's favorite, Cybele, the goddess with the civic crown...