Word: platform
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Cabinet member, "as soon as warranted." Up jumped Francis Edward McGovern, onetime (1911-15) Governor of Wisconsin, to denounce "as soon as warranted" for a mouthful of "weasel words." Up likewise jumped William Mitchell, stormy onetime assistant chief of the U. S. Army Air Service. Given the platform, he shouted; "The next war will be fought by getting at the vital centres of the enemy. This must be done by aviation. Today we are being strangled. I favor ending the situation. I favor the creation of a department under a separate Cabinet officer at once...
...Durant, Miss., a great piece of cheese lay on a massive platform last week. The cheese weighed 2,000 Ibs. and in its way was as notable as the notables who stood about it, sniffed at it, rolled a slice from its savory bulk over their tongues-Governor Dennis Murphree of Mississippi, President Lawrence Aloysius Downs of the Illinois Central, President John H. Kraft of the Kraft Cheese Co., and many another...
...nomination. Under a blue and windy sky the farmers who had come to town for the annual Farmers' Union munched hot dogs or cones and stood on their feet with their hands in their pockets. Their wives, many with yowling babies in arm, soon strolled away from the platform. The voice of Mr. Reed sounded incongruously vehement in the placid, warm afternoon, but the farmers and press correspondents (who were sitting just below the speakers' stand) listened carefully. Said Senator Reed: "Some of you farmers think agriculture is sick. Drs. Coolidge and Hoover, however, assured us the entire...
...Specifically, and divested of glamor, that means: 1) No Geneva parley or League of Nations entanglement; 2) flood relief; 3) inland waterways; 4) farm relief. Mayor Thompson wants the West to know that his championship will go to the man who, red-blooded and foursquare, stands upon such a platform as candidate for the Presidency of the U. S. Some one of these planks, indeed, must lie close to the heart of practically every Western voter. But no one candidate has yet appeared to champion all four-except Mayor Thompson. From this circumstance some saw in his crusade a flourish...
Died. Mrs. Georgia Wade Mc-Clellan, 86, who sat on the platform during Lincoln's Gettysburg address; at Carroll, la. On her deathbed, imagining herself again a Civil War nurse, she said: "There's a soldier boy in there [the next room] who wants a letter written to his mother. He's wounded so badly he'll never live. I do wish you'd write...