Word: platform
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Those ambitious for the Presidency have discovered two very effective means of avoiding the unpleasantness of declaring themselves plainly. One method is that of silence, in the manner of President Coolidge and Mayor Lodge of Detroit: effective where the field is small, and the opposition has stated its platform. Some candidates are pussyfooting in this way; others have found a more subtle scheme, in which the procedure is, first, the careful study of the issues raised and supported by the few who have been audacious enough to speak, and second, the choice of an issue not yet covered...
...voices of candidates, possible and impossible, sound only very faintly through the din of investigations, charges, and counter-charges now filling Washington. Whoever the next President may be, he surely has an aversion to standing with both feet on his own platform...
...dovetailing together of candidates and issues, instead of a head-on collision between the opposing factions. The parties stand in a peculiar position. If they desire to take a definite stand, they must choose from the men who have followed the method of issue inventing. A really complete platform would require half a dozen presidential nominees of this lik for its support. It looks as if the silent man will carry the convention: the old game of hushing up the real questions will be played again, and the people will be allowed to choose between two men, neither of whom...
...next time you come in here you'll see my face and hear my voice in your imagination. You will note this spot where the platform stood and you will imagine me standing here. Say, Jesus, I'm through in St. Louis. Though I never walk the streets of St. Louis again in the flesh, I shall walk them in the spirit. Often in spirit I shall come to the Locust street entrance of the Coliseum, where those fine policemen have met me for seven weeks. . . ." Billy Sunday reached for his overcoat and let the converts come...
Evangelist Sunday paid little attention to the complaint made by a local minister that he had shown signs of commercialism in his recent Chicago revival. His Man Friday, Ralph T. Finley, of the local committee, announced from the Coliseum platform that all the proceeds from that revival had been pledged to the Pacific Garden Mission, where Sunday himself had been converted...