Word: platform
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...platform, then as now, mentioned Progress and Prosperity...
Passing through Nominee Curtis's home state was great sport. The Brown Derby swept and waved at every platform pause. People said the crowd at Topeka was "as big as Bryan's"; bigger, even, than Senator Curtis got when he went home a Nominee?but then, everyone in Topeka knows what Mr. Curtis looks like. The Brown Derby was something of a curiosity as well as an enthusiasm...
...once called him "the deadliest foe of moral progress in America," thin-lipped hot-eyed Parson John Roach Straton. There was some altercation, but Dr. Straton clutched his ticket. He had promised to behave. He was admitted and took a seat at the back of the platform. His presence intensified the Nominee's grim earnestness. It was a real Moment in the campaign...
...night that Nominee Smith denounced Whispering at Oklahoma City, Nominee Smith's slim, trig, glib little lieutenant, Mayor James John Walker of New York City, motored under the Hudson River to Newark, N. J. From the platform occupied four nights earlier by Nominee Hoover, came a speech in which Mayor Walker incorporated the following remarks...
...ever intimated that we were doing anything more than our plain duty. . . . And now in this good year 1928, the major political parties have taken up the issue as a political one. The issue is clearly drawn between them not because of any material difference in the platform declarations but because one candidate has deliberately repudiated the plank on prohibition which his party had solemnly set forth. . . . Let it be clearly understood that we will fight to the bitter end the election of Alfred E. Smith, not because he is a member of the Catholic Church . . . but because...