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Word: planking (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1950-1959
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American and U.N. recognition of the Peoples Republic of China is another plank: "whether we like it or not, the Communist government is the government in control...

Author: By David C. D. rogers, | Title: Young Progressives Will Fight to Remain Active | 10/15/1952 | See Source »

That the Constitution Party resembles the old America First movement is apparent. the party's first chairman, Mrs. Stevenson of Connecticut, recently resigned, charging the party's platform smacked of Anti-Semitism. She referred to the plank: "We must preserve our Christian heritage which has been the strength of this union." She also said some of the party members objected to her as chairman because she was foreign-born and a Catholic...

Author: By Milton S. Gwirtzman, | Title: Birth of a Party II | 10/3/1952 | See Source »

...audience repeatedly interrupted Stevenson with applause. Nor did the crowd show hostility when he frankly told them that he would stand by the Democratic platform's civil-rights plank. Said Stevenson: "I should justly earn your contempt if I talked one way in the South and another way elsewhere...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: National Affairs: Give 'Em the Needle | 9/29/1952 | See Source »

Several threw their luck in with the Harriman forces. William E. Leuchtonberg, formerly an assistant professor of History, served as a delegate analysist for Harriman, while Arthur A. Maass, assistant professor of Government, did sundry chores, and helped with the conservation plank in the Democratic platform...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Professors Spend Time in Chicago, Advising, Bouncing, Just Watching | 9/19/1952 | See Source »

Several threw their luck in with the Harriman forces. William E. Leuchtonberg, formerly an assistant professor of History, served as a delegate analysist for Harriman, while Arthur A. Maass, assistant professor of Government, did sundry chores, and helped with the conservation plank in the Democratic platform...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Professors Spend Time in Chicago, Advising, Bouncing, Just Watching | 9/15/1952 | See Source »

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