Word: platform
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...speech, for already he had told the assembled population that "the hospitality that has been extended to us has been nothing less than remarkable. . . ." Mrs. Coolidge and John Coolidge laughed and waved. Then the locomotive snout sneezed, the wheels began turning and the Coolidges, standing on the back platform of the Washington train, watched the Rapid City station turning into a tiny light spot in which molecular faces peered and electronic fingers wiggled the West's farewell. CT Reporters who traveled east- ward with the President remembering the trip west in June, were impressed with the improvement...
...other hand, it was felt that the President's allusions to the enforcement of the anti-religious laws would rally the Roman Catholics to the banner of "Kaiserlike" General Arnulfo R. Gomez, who sponsors religious toleration as the main plank in his party platform and who opposes one-armed General Obregon, among other reasons, because he has already been President...
...union to discuss their hardships during the time for which they were paid to teach. There had been blushing and anger among the teachers when cheerful Mr. McAndrew invited the public to "sample" the teachers' work, by quizzing and examining a group of representative pupils on a public platform...
When Deems Taylor resigned as music critic of the New York World to compose the first really successful U. S. opera, The King's Henchman, he lifted his keen, stocky self from a platform of newspaper authority to a pinnacle of international fame. Ordinarily, the fortunates who are able to take such a stride, seldom retrace their steps. But, according to Mr. Taylor, "newspaper work is like drink. The only way for some to quit is to have left it alone in the first place." So he accepted the position of editor of Musical America, and introduced his regime last...
Massed 7,500 strong in a semicircle in front of the platform, the Sioux listened to their Council's memorial, of which the burden was that the Sioux are too proud to ask for anything not rightly theirs but must insist that the Government restore to them certain lands taken away after supposedly permanent treaty settlements...