Word: platform
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...News in its 1927 Board platform advocated "Support to the Harvard CRIMSON project for a reduction of the public's virtual control of college football. We favor the plan in principle, but we do not believe the program advocated by this paper is either practicable or desirable. The fact that football has become so immense and has gained such a following should be proof against the drastic punishment prescribed. In its present condition it is somewhat of a mountain, but we would not go to the other extreme and make it puny...
...chose "Flor del Mal" (Flower of Sin). It tells, with the utter simplicity of all Meller's repertoire, the hopeless, disdainful story of a street girl. Her clothes were shoddy, ill-fitting; her hair slovenly, black about her forehead. Midway in the singing Meller moved out on a little platform almost over the heads of the first row, and lighted a cigaret. She smoked it singing and walked over to lean, dejected, against the stage wall. The song ended and she disappeared...
...Planks in the Independent Labor Party platform as finally erected last week...
...strike in Gary, Ind., or a gentleman's Plattsburg. And always he has been more statesman than Tsar. But one thing he cannot do. He cannot explain himself. He cannot express things. He canot touch emotion with winged words. In conversation he is witty, but on the platform he is dull, heavy, too careful of his facts, not sufficiently boisterous. "Do things, but don't boast about them" is his motto. So neither he nor his rich backers (primarily Procter, Ivory Soap man) could sell him to the politicians. It was deep disappointment. Theodore was dead. Was Leonard...
Once a year the extreme left wing Laborites of Britain gather to keynote their Independent Labor Party platform and to reiterate their claim to be "he brains of the British Labor movement." When they assembled last week at Whitley Bay, there was in evidence a new party slogan: "Socialism in our time...