Word: planking
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...followers by thousands began trooping in for the second Townsend National Convention. By bus, battered automobile and day coach they arrived from every corner of the land, biggest delegations coming from the Pacific Coast and nearby Ohio towns. Straight to headquarters at the Hotel Cleveland they went to plank down $2 each for credentials and badges, check their luggage, then set off to look for cheap rooms in boarding houses and tourist camps...
BankA chief plank in the Popular Front's platform was reform of the Bank of France and suppression of the oligarchy of 200 families who own that institution's voting stock (TIME, May 18). After months of guessing as to what sort of reform bill would be introduced, pudgy Finance Minister Vincent Auriol brought forward last week a measure so stern and thoroughgoing as to leave French wiseacres blinking in astonishment...
...discovered that, in order to reach the springboard for practice, they had to stand behind long queues of merry Long Island City sports who were delighted because the opening of the new 20? pool coincided with the heat wave. Once reached, the springboard turned out to be an ordinary plank, instead of the special article called for by A. A. U. regulations. Swimmers were even more horrified to find the pool full of screaming children who, on the hottest day in New York's history, showed no inclination whatever to climb out and let the experts in. When...
There was no doubt that the New Deal was showing a sudden interest in cooperation. An outright endorsement of consumer co-operatives was originally drafted for the Democratic platform, though the plank was finally whittled down to an innocuous statement about narrowing the spread between producer and consumer prices. In Scribner's, Secretary of Agriculture Wallace lately suggested cooperation as the answer to the title of his article, "The Search For An American Way." Elaborating an a book called Whose Constitution? published last week, Secretary Wallace declared: "Producer cooperatives are not enough. . . . The co-operative way of life must...
...White House knew it when John Lewis stomped grimly into the President's office next day. And correspondents in the press box at the Democratic Convention last week knew it when John Lewis, hospitably received by the Resolutions Committee, was presumably permitted to hew out the labor plank of the platform on which Franklin Roosevelt will stand for reelection. Significantly the plank went out of its way to take specific note of labor problems which interest John L. Lewis. By last week, newshawks widely concluded, John L. Lewis had entered the charmed circle of Politicians Who Count...