Word: platform
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...lamented the defection of all but three Congressmen, including himself and New York's vociferous La Guardia, from what was once a bloc of ten House "radicals." Mr. Berger, as chairman of the party's executive committee, promised a light-wines-&-beer plank in the Socialist platform...
Cities north of Washington are accustomed to elegant express trains carrying distinguished statesmen. Not until the Smith train entered Virginia did real crowds begin to appear on station platforms. At Charlottesville, though it was getting late, Candidate Smith went out on the back platform and made...
...were sacrificed to LaFollette's Progressives and are only just being revived. In fact during the last week, while Governor Smith has been attracting crowds at the churches he attended on his Southern trip, that party has been holding a convention in New York to choose candidates and a platform...
...Majestic gave surplus value for her $265 minimum first class fare. The bonus was in the form of a spry though greying couple who appeared on the passenger list as "Mr. and Mrs, John Robinson." On the third night out John Robinson mounted the Majesties concert platform and cried genially: "Look here, you people, I am Henry Ford and I will show you how to amuse yourselves in the proper way. What about old-fashioned dances...
When he reached the platform in Gray Chapel, on the Campus of Ohio Wesleyan University, all Delaware was massed in the seats. Marching clubs were milling about. The "President-making" Republican Glee Club of Columbus sang the late Mrs. Harding's favorite song, "The End of a Perfect Day." Senator Willis, feeling though not recognizing the start of a cerebral hemorrhage, muttered to his wife that he needed air. He walked across the platform, staggered through the door, fell into the arms of his secretary, Charles A. Jones...