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Sukthankar characterized her plat-form asalmost the complete opposite of Lewis' andGuiney...

Author: By Elizabeth M. Angell, | Title: RUS Elects New Co-Presidents | 2/11/1994 | See Source »

Although Thompson has unerringly voted the progressive plat-form, Lee maintains that Thompson is not an "advocate" for his constituents. In the midst of a fiscal crisis that threatens to limit state aid to the city, he says, a better leader is necessary...

Author: By Julian E. Barnes, | Title: A Year After Victory, Thompson Faces Opposition | 2/6/1990 | See Source »

...resolution, Professor Hughes, two-thirds of the way through his term as chairman of the History Department, rose to defend the sanctity of Faculty control over such matters as curriculum and appointment policy. This was the same H. Stuart Hughes who in 1962 ran for the Senate on a plat-form sufficiently unpopular to garner about 6 per cent of the vote, and who was still, when I came to Harvard, the closest thing with tenure to an active radical. But Professor Hughes and, for that matter, Betsy were only backwaters in the great stream of people supposedly politicized...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: From The End of Four Years | 6/30/1969 | See Source »

...agitators" would be the first to go. A man outside, skilled in estimating labor conditions, could say what he thought with no fear of dismissal, and could give a more comprehensive view of what was going on in all the factories. This right of representation is no very radical plat-form; it is not only-justified but inevitable. An employer is in no way compelled to accept the advice offered, provided he has an open shop. Refusing this right at this time of strained relations is showing a great lack of foresight...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: OVERLOOKING THE MAIN ISSUE | 10/25/1919 | See Source »

During the coming winter a plat-form will be substituted for the boat which was used in the rowing tank in the gemnasium at Yale last year...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Fact and Rumor. | 11/8/1887 | See Source »

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