Word: platform
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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With but two dissenting votes the meeting expressed an opinion endorsing the League of Nations; and advocating the immediate absolute independence of the Philippines. These two statements will be incorporated in the platform to be presented to the convention...
...held in the Union last night the Democratic Club furthered its plans for the forthcoming mock convention to be held in May, with speeches by two men prominent in Democratic state organization in Massachusetts, and reports from the committees on foreign policy which have been working to formulate the platform for the convention...
...machinery of a regular campaign is already whirling. Committees are hammering together a platform with as much alacrity as the directors of the party outside. Delegates are to be chosen shortly; then in May will come the march to New Lecture Hall, which will do very well for a convention hall, and the battle proper begins. There is no mystery, gentlemen, no hocus-pocus; every issue plainly before your eyes, every candidate offered for what he is worth. The college side-show serves to whet the appetite while the main tent is being prepared. But the pungency...
...David K. Niles, associate director of the Forum, sees behind this action the shadow of the Blue Menace, which for a decade has been growing more and more potent in this state. Born of the anti-Red agitation immediately after the war, this undemocratic reaction found agents for its platform in a few super-patriotic organizations, and a means to stifle free speech in the black list...
...platform of the Democratic Club is rapidly being put into the proper phraseology in preparation for the forth-coming mock convention to be held in May. The foreign policy division of the platform is already in the hands of four committees who will voice the sentiments of the club. A committee headed by Edward Dumbauld 2L is investigating the question of World peace with reference to the League of Nations. The European situation, Russia and Italy, is being considered by a committee in charge of C. J. White 3L. A. B. Hawes '28 will be in charge of the committee...