Word: platform
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...country came into power with a more simple, a more clear, or a more inescapable mandate than the party that was inaugurated on the 4th of March in 1933, and, listen, no candidate in the history of the country ever pledged himself more unequivocally to his party platform than did the President who was inaugurated on that day. Well, here...
...what is worrying me is: Where does that leave us millions of Democrats? My mind is all fixed upon the convention in June in Philadelphia. The committee on resolutions is about to report. The preamble to the platform is: 'We, the representatives of the Democratic party, in convention assembled, heartily endorse the Democratic Administration...
...speakers, New York's Governor Lehman and New York City's Mayor LaGuardia, New Dealers both, piled quotation on quotation, leaving no doubt whatever that Roosevelt I, like a Christian before Christ, had blessed the New Deal 20 years before its birth. Listening in silence on the platform and in reserved seats below, sat a phalanx of Roosevelt I's descendants, good Republicans all. including Alice Longworth. But the only rebuke offered by the children of Roosevelt I to Roosevelt II was made by Theodore Roosevelt Jr. who, in the course of personal anecdotes, smilingly remarked that...
Crocker First National is a highly personal institution. With the exception of the elder Mr. Crocker, all officials sit on an open raised platform at the end of the marble banking room. Executives wander about, chat at length, wave to customers below. Preferring a little office just off the platform to his luxurious quarters upstairs, old Mr. Crocker trots in & out, beaming through his waggling beard...
...Poling was called to Manhattan's Marble Collegiate Church (Dutch Reformed) and from its pulpit began his weekly radio talks. By 1929 Prohibition again needed champions. "Dan" Poling resigned from his pulpit. He used his rosiest platform manner on the Republican convention of 1932. then stumped 31 states by airplane, insisting to the end that the country was dry. Without a pulpit, he has since devoted his energies to turning out what he calls "smashing editorials" in the Christian Herald...