Word: planking
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Mason-Dixon line runs squarely down the center of the Republican civil right plank. We believe, say the Republicans, in "enacting federal legislation to further just and equitable treatment in the area of discriminatory employment practices." This takes care of the North. But, the Republicans go on, "Federal action should not duplicate state efforts to end such practices, should not set up another huger bureaucracy." And this satisfies the South. Actually, the Republicans have taken no stand on federal FEPC at all, nor on anti-poll tax, anti-lynching, and anti-filibuster legislation...
Since the beginning of the campaign, General Eisenhower has been pussyfooting up and down this plank, as he goes from North to South. Below the mythical line, voters have left the General's rallies impressed that with him in the White House the federal government would be more concerned with cleaning out Washington "messes" than those in Texas and South Carolina. To the people in Harlem, the General pictures himself as a modern Joshua, itching for the opportunity to blow down the walls of discrimination with a few well-spaced trumpet blasts. Those who read all the General's speeches...
...Their defense was to cite the party's civil rights plank which since 1932 has contained only empty promises," he began. "This is an excellent example of the intellectual dishonesty with which the HLU Continually insults the intelligence of the Harvard community," Schroeder added...
Replying to the challenge of Edward R. Schroeder '53, HYRC president, that the Liberal Union explain its support of the Democratic civil rights record, Carrington said the party's civil rights plank was "the most forthright statement on the subject ever adopted by a major political party." He contrasted the plank to the Republican's "Splinter" in civil rights, which he called "weaker than its 1948 or 1944 stands...
Yankee Buccaneer has more than its share of pitched battles, broadsides, plank walkings, scurvy epidemics, pirate attacks and pistol-point escapes. It even has a man-eating shark which Farragut subdues. But it is still no great shakes as either Hollywood hokum or history...