Word: planking
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...TIME says, "Chairman Spangler himself had compressed his postwar domestic plank into on typewritten page of anti-New Deal invective and glowing promises." Th fact is that Chairman Spangler did not desire the Council to adopt any resolution on domestic policy. . . . This did not meet with the approval of the Domestic Affairs Ccmmittee, particularly Governor Dewey and myself. . . I enclose the postwar domestic plank which I wrote Sunday night after learning that none had been prepared by Mr. Spangler, and which I submitted to the committee...
Everything seemed shipshape. Michigan's broad-domed Senator Arthur Vandenberg arrived with a foreign-policy resolution in his pocket, a document marvelously vague, in which each word had been planed and sandpapered down to political harmlessness. Chairman Spangler himself had compressed his postwar domestic plank into one typewritten page of anti-New Deal invective and glowing promises...
...committee to write GOPolicy. Senator Taft threw in the sponge, told the Governors to write the domestic platform themselves. This was precisely what the Governors wanted. They split up in subcommittees, recast the heart of the platform. Iowa's Hickenlooper led a group which rewrote the veterans' plank; Nebraska's Griswold put teeth into the farm program; California's Warren and Washington's Langlie touched up the section on labor (which, in the Taft draft, had not even guaranteed collective bargaining...
...reshaping the foreign-policy plank, the Governors had the help of such able men as Vermont's greying Senator Warren Austin and New Jersey's snow-haired Representative Charles Eaton. They forced adoption of a plank far more specific than , any of them had, as individuals, hoped for. On the record, G.O.P. now favors...
Finally Admiral Vickery stormed to the White House, demanded that Willie Gibbs walk the plank. According to one report, the President agreed. But WPBoss Donald Nelson rallied to Gibbs' side, even threatened to resign, and this forced a compromise...