Word: platform
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Dowager Queen). At smaller tables other statesmen and ladies-like- wise in black. At one end of the room eight rows of seats, tiered like a grandstand, for the press. Above and over all, the unearthly white-green glare of mercury-vapor arcs. Conspicuous upon a red-draped raised platform, several uncouth persons in sweaters or shirt- sleeves, cranking unceasingly at cinema cameras. Such was the setting, dramatic and bizarre, amid which the famed Locarno Treaties* were signed at London last week...
...Alley '01, President of the League of Nations Nonpartisan Association, George Collins, Secretary of the Fellowship of Reconciliation, Norman Thomas, Progressive candidate at the last New York mayoral election, and Kirby Page, author of "An American Peace Policy", are the most prominent of the men who will occupy the platform during the Conference...
...evening meeting tomorrow will take place at 8 o'clock when two speakers, Norman Thomas and George Collins, will share the platform. "The Relation of Public Opinion to Government Action" and "America's Responsibility" are the subjects that will be treated at this time...
Three distinguished men will mount the platform of Peabody Hall, Phillips Brooks House, during the next two weeks, Professor C.T. Copeland '89, Roger W. Babson, famous statistician, and Dr. Wilfred T. Grenfell, for many years medical missionary in. Labrador and Newfoundland, are speakers scheduled to talk under the auspices of the Christian Association...
...Sunday morning at 9 o'clock there will be a discussion on the relation of students to international matters. Kirby Page, author of "An American Peace Policy," will mount the platform either at the beginning or the end of the discussion, and will give his views on the place American students should hold in the shaping of foreign affairs...