Word: platform
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...many a State, are gubernatorial and Congressional elections. Republican Indiana, for example, seemed last week in a fair way to acquire a Demo cratic Governor. So eaten with corruption is the local G. O. P. reputation that Demo crat Frank C. Dailey, running on a "house-cleaning'' platform, seemed well ahead of Republican Harry G. Leslie...
...full house at Symphony Hall is expected tonight when three members of the Harvard Debating Council take to the platform with Yale at 8.15 o'clock this evening to prove "That Al Smith should be elected President". Another Harvard team lost by a one point margin to the Yale debaters at New Haven last week when they took the negative of the same proposition, so that tonight's team is prepared to do justice to Smith...
...criticisms made in your editorial Monday of Norman Thomas' platform, his chance of election, and the importance of his presence at Harvard are, it seems to me, themselves rather unsound...
...Socialist platform you call unconvincing. Do you mean that the other platforms are more so than the Socialist--when in the next sentence you admit a "baffling indistinction" between the major parties? In the program of the Socialist Party, there is explained an objective and material attitude, which recommends enforcement of freedom of speech, press, and assembly, and definite unemployment relief and labor legislation. The platform may be wrong on some specific points; but it tackles real issues squarely, and a sweeping condemnation cannot be scientifically made...
...Note: The CRIMSON wishes to make clear that it implied no slighting comparison of the Socialist platform to that of the two major parties in its editorial entitled, "Crying in the Wilderness". The sentence in regard to the clear cut principles of the Socialist platform and the baffling indistinction of the other, two was meant to establish this beyond a shadow of doubt...