Word: platform
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Philip Yarrow. Superintendent of the Illinois Vigilance Association, last week thrilled a Chicago audience, mostly women, by producing on the Masonic Temple platform a black robed, hooded, masked figure who croaked sepulchrally: "I have consorted with the dregs of humanity. I have waded through cesspools of vice in order to carry out my investigations. I have played poker with the brother of Al Capone! I have a sixth sense...
Ascending the Tribune he delivered a masterful defense of his policies, and then, before the Opposition could reply, produced an Imperial rescript dissolving the Diet. By this stratagem Premier Tanaka secured the widest possible publicity for a speech which amounted to the electoral platform of his party, and at the same time checkmated the Opposition's desire to air its contrary platform in the Diet...
...artifice of paradox is essential to the art of politics. Desiring peace among themselves, the Democrats dined together last week in the name of their greatest fighter?Andrew Jackson. Desiring to unite behind one man and on one platform, they suppressed their enthusiasm for their most popular man?Alfred Emanuel Smith, who was not present?and they tiptoed across a central plank in his platform?Prohibition, which loomed in the minds...
...appendix was just out, but his presence was announced by a demonstration brief and sincere. None interrupted with conventional shouts while Mr. Lunn read: " . . . The declaration of party principles might well be tentatively drafted at the earliest possible moment. . . . In the heat and rush of the Convention the platform when finally written is, to my way of thinking, not sufficiently understandable to the masses of the people...
...twinkling with medals, cased the little, compact royal body. The oval, shapely head bore proudly a black shako topped with aigrette plumes. The left hand rested, militantly graceful, on the jeweled hilt of a sword. The right arm snapped to a correct salute as Amir Amanullah beheld upon the platform small, slim King Vittorio Emanuele of Italy, and burly but suave Prime Minister Benito Mussolini...