Word: planks
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...carry, might cause his Government to fall. To U.S. soldiers who had come 8,000 miles to help defend Australia, it seemed ludicrous that Australian troops, aside from volunteers, could not move freely throughout the South Pacific. But the Labor Party's no-conscript-overseas plank was firmly nailed down. Last spring Curtin himself led a fight which defeated a proposal for change, saying it would be made "when the time comes...
Mike Feighan (fee-an) ran on a single plank: Cleveland's votes would show whether it was for or against the Administration's war program. The Plain Dealer and the News joined Editor Seltzer's crusade, although newspapers usually consider it a competitive disadvantage to join a rival's campaign...
...team that beat Notre Dame's Four Horsemen, was nominated by the Republicans for Governor. Third in the race was tempestuous Senator Clyde Reed, who had gone back home, hopping mad over the closed shop and union initiation fees at Kansas war plants, to run on a one-plank platform: "fair" labor legislation. (He incidentally wanted to take State party control from the old Alf Landon machine.) Soothed the Kansas City Star: "Kansas voters [merely] sent him back to Washington, where many believed his issue belonged...
...Massachusetts' First Congressional District Raymond Leslie Buell, 46, scholar, foreign-affairs expert, has entered the Republican primary for Congress against Allen Towner Treadway, 74, conservative Congressman for 29 years (TIME, July 20). Quiet, bespectacled Raymond Buell is running on a one-plank platform: How can Congress be improved? Unless Congress stops playing politics and buckles down to its job, he thinks, the war may be longer, the peace might be botched. One night last week friends of Mr. Buell's came to his house in Richmond in a hayrack, carried him down to the Town Hall. There...
Last week a younger man, a scholar, editor, lecturer, challenged Oldster Treadway's right to sit longer in Congress, accused conservatives of killing the Republican Party. Pundit Raymond Leslie Buell announced that he would run on a one-plank platform: What is wrong with the membership of Congress and what can be done to improve...