Word: planking
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...fashioned high-tariff plank of the Republicans was matched with a Democratic promise "to seek by mutual agreement the lowering of . . . tariff barriers." That meant that President Roosevelt would continue to adjust customs rates over the bargain counter of reciprocal agreements with other countries...
...crop restriction, the Democrats matched with a declaration in favor of "the production of all the market will absorb, both at home and abroad, plus a reserve supply sufficient to insure fair prices to consumers." To most observers that sounded like crop control stated backwards. Into the farm plank also went such pledges as continued benefit pay ments, Government refinancing of farm debts, encouragement of cooperatives, retirement of submarginal land, "recognition" of the evils of farm tenancy...
...Republican demand for sound money, interpreted by Nominee Landon as "convertible into gold," was matched by a looking-both-ways plank designed not to offend commodity-dollar men, silverites or inflationists: "We approve the objective of a permanently sound currency so stabilized as to prevent the former wide fluctuations in value . . . a currency which will permit full utilization of the country's resources...
...like the Republican platform the major plank of the Democratic platform had to be read largely between its lines. Franklin Roosevelt, according to report, planned originally to have the platform say little more on the subject of the Constitution and possible changes in it to circumvent the Supreme Court than he said in his speech at Little Rock (TIME, June...
Accordingly, Senator Borah was allowed to write the anti-League of Nations and antimonopoly planks (although the two sharpest paragraphs of his monopoly plank were cut out in the final version). Two other planks he was allowed to veto: any reference to the gold standard in the money plank and any suggestion of a constitutional amendment to authorize State control of minimum wages. William Allen White had also to make concessions to various non-Landon members of the platform Committee. Thus with Editor White functioning as a diplomat rather than as a liberal, Landon views on the platform were largely...