Word: platform
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Senator Arthur Vandenberg kept mum in Washington, but photographs of the Vandenberg home were beginning to circulate through the Press. In Columbus, Old Guardsman Ogden L. Mills pounded away at "demoralized" New Deal spending. In Manhattan, Representative Hamilton ("Ham") Fish Jr. hazarded an eight-point landing on the Republican platform. In Sacramento, Governor Frank Merriam announced that he was not opposing friends' efforts on his behalf. In Chicago, Publisher Bernarr ("Body Love") Macfadden opened up campaign headquarters...
...locomotive on Mr. Couch's Louisiana & Arkansas R. R. Mrs. Aldrich boarded a coach and the train chuffed off to Hope, Ark. There Utilitarian Couch had a hillbilly band at the station to meet them. The Aldriches climbed out, danced a square dance on the platform before Host Couch whisked them off to his island lodge...
...tell you: I left two bags of seeds, one walnut and one pine. I wish you would plant them in the nursery." Up went the gangplank. Off went the train. When the special stopped at Chattanooga, the President quit work on his speech, went out to the rear platform. "I don't have to tell you," he declared to the station crowd, "of my interest in this State and in this section of this State, because in the Tennessee Valley the nation as a whole is conducting-I hate to call it an experiment because it has got beyond...
Charging to the front of the platform, Coordinator Berry shook his hairy fist, bellowed: "You're another liar and I'll make you eat that!" Through the seething crowd plunged a flying wedge of policemen to stand guard around Protestor Haake & friends. Boos, roars, catcalls sounded through the hall as the first session of Coordinator Berry's promotion party for Government & Business co-operation broke up in confusion...
...rise of a third major party between 1936 and 1940 which will be chiefly Farmer-Labor in composition with some white collar element. The Socialists will unite with them, he says if they are permitted educational freedom to spread their doctrine. A likely basis for the new party's platform will be "production for use, not profit...