Word: platform
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...came about: While a million radios were still being tuned in to catch the proceedings: while campaign managers were still figuring with frantic pencils the delegates claimed and the delegates secured: even before the chairman stood upon the platform and delivered the quadrennial inveighment against smoking, the issue was settled. Cold water, floods of it poured over the fireworks, and the melancholy farmers could not even rouse a dull "siss!" for all their trying. The anti-Hoover scandal sheets were futile and with no goal before them, they can only fill wastebaskets or memory books...
Delegates. As early as last week, Kansas City newsgatherers began reporting arrivals. William Morgan Butler, national chairman of the G. 0. P., arrived and also Senator Reed Smoot of Utah, chairman of the Platform Committee. To ensure themselves privacy, these gentlemen selected several rooms apiece in various parts of the town and familiarized themselves with unobtrusive entrances and exits. Senator Smoot wanted no interruptions from avid proponents of special doctrine, especially farmer doctrine, while he is phrasing the eternal principles for which the G. O. P. will say it stands this year...
Ohio is sending Robert A. Taft, tall son of the Chief Justice of the U. S. On the platform will be Ohio's professorial little Senator Fess, to sound the whole great convention's keynote. He will be Candidate Hoover's floor manager. In the Ohio delegation, besides patriarchal Representative Theodore Elijah Burton, will be short, rotund Charles W. Seiberling, one of the rubber brothers from Akron. Delegate Seiberling filed his candidacy on the Hoover ticket without knowing that his older brother, Frank A. Seiberling, was running on the opposing Willis slate. Charles W. telephoned Frank...
...Manhattan last fortnight, George Hicks, 60, clumsy, careless, fell off a subway platform. Before he could scramble up the edge again, a train, like a big boa came slithering toward him. George Hicks flattened himself face downward. The boa slithered over him, stopped. Ten openings opened. Hundreds of humans wriggled into the openings, became corpuscles of the boa. It hissed a little, rolled on over the body of George Hicks, and into a dark hole. George Hicks rose, unhurt, and made for the platform. Again a boa with two small red eyes came toward him, too fast. Again George Hicks...
...Workers party is not to be confused with the Socialist party, whose candidate is fair-haired Norman Thomas, Princeton graduate, one-time minister. The Socialist platform is virtually identical with the Communist platform except for the revolutionary plank. Because Socialists do not favor overthrowing the existing government, Communists lump Socialists with Democrats and Republicans as "tools of Capital...