Word: platform
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...elect Democratic Congressmen but to defeat the Democratic national ticket. Asked if the Anti-Smith Democrats would accept Republican moneys (see p. 6), Bishop Cannon said: "Certainly. I never look a gift horse in the mouth." They disguised their antipathy for Nominee Smith's Roman Catholicism in a "platform" attacking him only...
...repudiation of the Houston platform . . . shameless defiance ... insolently . . . political double dealing . . . moral suicide...
Steadfastly ignored at first by President Smith, the malcontents ascended to a gallery, where they stamped, catcalled and finally picked a fist fight which made proceedings impossible. Roused, "Old Herbie" Smith dashed from platform to gallery, shouting, "I'm 65, but [to one of the Reds] I'll throw you out, Bill Allen...
Nominee Hoover appeared several times on the back platform and, as an ardent Republican correspondent said, "waved his appreciation with hand and hat. Speak he would not. At Crestline, Ohio, someone cried: "At least you can tell us what you had for breakfast!" The Nominee laughed and mumbled something about "a good Ohio breakfast...
...Tolstoy. But vote-seeking and international peace gatherings consumed only part of her time and energy. For nearly a half-century she managed the New York Diet Kitchen Association and was active in many another social service body in and about Manhattan. Tireless, vivid, she mounted many a platform in her last years, a majestic old gentlewoman in the kind of hats Queen Victoria liked, voicing the kind of ideas with which Queen Victoria's great-great-grandchildren will grow...