Word: planking
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Care was exercised in excluding professional peace societies and organizations of "pink" tendencies. This was to be a conference of "normal" women to undertake a common-sense study of the problem of preventing war, with a view of arriving at some common plank on which all could stand, which the delegates could take back to 5,000,000 women whom they represented to start a great wave of public opinion against...
Last summer each political party included an equivocal plank in its platform, and one presidential candidate devoted much breath and labor in explaining this plan of exit from the situation. The important factor in the decision is public indifference. That a principal resource of the South, providing heat, light, and factory power, is to be chiefly freed from public control and left within the decision of private interests, seems a step of no importance...
...overwhelming vote President Coolidge received in November was rightly interpreted by him as a mandate that the United States adhere to the World Court protocol with reservations, this being an important foreign plank in his platform. Accordingly, he strongly urged that action in his message to Congress. Senator Borah, however, thinks otherwise...
...followed in their trail?" At Milwaukee, Charles G. Dawes went to the lair of LaFollettism to attack, not 'because the Republicans hope for success there, but rather because of the compelling interest which comes to those who attack the lion in his den. He declared that the LaFollette plank, which would permit Congress to override a decision...
Prof. VV. C. Bagley, Teachers College, Columbia University, staunch worker for the Sterling-Reed Bill, evoked "a storm of applause" by denouncing Democratic and Republican discourtesies to education. He was for supporting a Third Party en masse if its platform carried the proper plank...