Word: platform
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Still these and their political overflow have a rather small place in the undergraduate's platform of action. They are of the world beyond. And, while it would be disastrous to neglect the approach of that world, it would be fatuous to desert more impinging problems for it. If youth revolt and student reform are desirable, they are desirable where student comprehension is sufficient to insure both the sanity of new propositions and the discovery of effective reforming methods. It is the latter, attained through the former that will make college graduates fruitful innovators after college years...
...Meiklejohn divides his platform into ten units, the first of which concerns the size of his projected college. And here in the particular is the first parallel with the plan of the Student Council's committee. For he wants his college to be and to remain no larger than two hundred and fifty in enrollment, a desire, which, as is now rather well known, those who drafted the Harvard report possess. Furthermore, he suggests that the college must be near a large city or university whose laboratories and libraries it can use. The idea of dividing Harvard into small colleges...
...divergent elements, it would indeed be a political triumph. It is true that the election of Hindenburg and the Munich demonstration indicated that a considerable number of Germans still cherish the memory of the Empire. But since a Hohenzollern restoration is not a part of the Hugenberg plan, his platform will have but little appeal to the monarchists. Nor will the Communists, much as they dislike the present regime, be inclined to range themselves on the side of a reactionary and oligarchic movement...
...once he had built something, he kept it. He did not barter, destroy, amalgamate and otherwise treat newspapers and newspapermen as impersonal bits of merchandise in the manner of his late contemporary, Publisher Munsey. A publisher of the highest order, he remained always a newspaperman himself, sticking to the platform that he wrote for the first issue of the Penny Press: "We shall tell no lies about persons or policies for love, malice or money ... or fight, lie or wrangle.... The newspaper should simply present all the facts...
...platform in Detroit last January sat a quiet, alert, well-dressed man. Close to him sat Robert C. Graham, Vice President and General Sales Manager of Dodge Brothers, Inc. Before him in the amphitheatre sat some 3,000 retail sellers of Dodge motor cars and Graham trucks. The quiet, alert one had bought out their company for $146,000,000 some time before (TIME, April 13). He was Clarence Dillon of Dillon, Read & Co., the Manhattan banking house...