Word: platform
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...through his own part of the continent-Kansas, Arkansas, Oklahoma, Texas, New Mexico-Nominee Robinson last week assaulted Intolerance, leading issue in that section. He flayed "a lot of women with short skirts and long necks" for the Whispering Campaign. He cried: "Neither the Republican nor the Demo cratic platform declares in favor of Prohibition." He said: "Senator Curtis and I are dry - nobody knows how dry we are!" Also, he mixed with Editor William Allen White of the Emporia, Kan., Gazette, in an argument of the kind that is thoroughly enjoyed in a country of long adjectives and short...
...mighty hall full of puzzled heads supported by tired spines, the British Labor Party's new electoral platform was pegged together and tinkered with, at Birmingham, last week, until it contained the bewildering total of 65 major planks and nobody seemed to know how many planklettes...
...platform promises that the Party, if returned to power, will gradually nationalize the coal, transport, power and life insurance businesses and establish minimum wage scales for all earners. Swiftest action is promised to repeal: 1) the Trades Union Act (making a "Coercive" or General Strike illegal); 2) the Trades Disputes Act (restraining unions from making extraordinary levies on their members) ; and 3) the Eight Hour Mines Act (under which British miners now delve an hour a day longer than...
...platform is ambiguous as to whether the Party favors a "protective tariff," called "Safeguarding" in England. However Leader MacDonald, a staunch Free Trader, warned that even if some form of protection should have to be adopted he would by no means favor a tariff ("safeguarding") but instead would place an absolute embargo on too-cheap, too-competitive foreign goods...
Significance. On the whole Prime Minister Stanley Baldwin's platform speech was negative and uninspiring, but admirably and typically Conservative. It was the speech of a warmly beloved British leader whose personal hobby is keeping pigs, and who consistently manages to "muddle through...