Word: platform
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Minister of Education, leader of the Democratic Centerist Party, was accused of demanding the equivalent of $2,000 in bribes from vodka-distillers. Heads less distinguished were cartooned in the papers and reviled from the platform with incredible grossness...
...first boom was Newton D. Baker. He appeared on the platform of Cleveland's Public Hall, scene of the Republican Convention two Junes ago. He made a little speech and then the Cleveland Symphony orchestra burst into music in one of the perennial civic efforts to make good music popular. This particular effort was marked by two unusual proceedings: 1) blocks of tickets were issued to each of Cleveland's numerous foreign elements (Cleveland's population is about 80% foreign born) ; 2) the program consisted of music by composers of ten different nationalities...
...preparations have been completed for the third meeting between Harvard and Oxford upon the debating platform. Only the cheaper seats in Symphony Hall remain unsold, and it is expected that these will be filled when the first Oxford speaker mounts the platform at 8.15 o'clock tonight...
...office reports indicate that every stat will be taken when the first speaker mounts the platform tomorrow. Tickets are still to be had, especially in the cheaper sections of the house, but the management is preparing to install platform seats in anticipation of an eleventh hour rush...
...defence minister Gessler, the acting chancellor was on the platform, as well as President von Hindenburg, arraved in his old uniform resplendent with spiked helmet and imperial decorations, a great bowl has naturally gore an from the Socialists and Liberals at the impropriety of Republican offieia's participating in an anti-Republican demonstration...