Word: planks
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...forces air in & out the lungs. Dr. Eve, who is consulting physician to the Royal Infirmary at Hull, 'finds this teeterboard respirator effective in acute diseases; it relieves the patient from any breathing effort. For infants a rocking chair serves just as well as a pivoted stretcher or plank...
Puerto Ricans, mindful of the Democratic plank promising "ultimate Statehood," turned thumbs down on the Nationalist (independence) party, voted an overwhelming majority in the insular Legislature to Socialist and Republican candidates...
...forgotten woman Mrs. Mabel Walker Willebrandt, plenty of "What happened? . . . Let's take a look. . . . Let us go back. . . ." An Al Smith occasion and an Al Smith speech in less than his most thoughtful vein, it accomplished one thing for his party: claiming credit for the Democratic wet plank, he placed it squarely against the Republican wet-&-dry one, left the way open for Governor Roosevelt, at Baltimore, to carry...
...exclusive Century Club, with a $10 check. First day's collections: $197.50. Campaign budget: $1,500,000. Two days later Nominee Roosevelt went to Sea Girt, N. J.. where Boss Frank Hague had massed 100,000 Democrats to hear him speak on Prohibition. Flaying the Republican plank for being "long, indirect, ambiguous, insincere, false,'' the Democratic nominee declared: "Words upon words, a dense cloud of words! . . . Senator Borah said it sounded Wet to him. President Butler said the words were Dry." Governor Roosevelt charged his opponent with using "pussycat words" in his acceptance speech and deliberately...
...Yorkers may pay a nickel to ride in the big, shiny new cars. But by law the system must be self-supporting within three years, and Mayor Walker's administration fears that if operated independently it will lose money, thereby losing also the cherished 5? fare, biggest plank in Tammany's political platform...