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When the neck is broken, first-aiders "should gently roll the victim on a plank so that he rests face upward, and under no circumstances with the head tilted forward. This is the best position to prevent movement of the fractured cervical vertebrae...
...Neither the Republican platform's monetary plank nor Landon's telegram to the National Convention interpreting the Party's money declaration as meaning currency based on gold would preclude consideration of the silver problem...
...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...