Word: platform
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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sirs, . . . The Croix de Feu is entirely unpolitical, has no "platform" and Colonel de La Rocque has no aspirations of dictatorship a la Mussolini. . . . Its enemies are Communism and Free Masonry. (Here I remind you that Free Masonry in France has no resemblance to the very fine organization of the same name in other parts of the world. American and English Free Masons are forbidden to recognize this bastard branch of France to whose activities many dark pages in French history can be traced.) . . . Fascism is only the label given this fine organization by its enemies - a false statement...
...Manual of Christian Matrimony,''* by Rev. Dr. Walter Arthur Maier, famed Lutheran, editor of The Walther League Messenger, professor at Concordia Seminary. Chubby, dimple-chinned Dr. Maier, 42, is a harddriving, popular teacher, a hard-working editor who dictates daily to three secretaries. Frequently on the platform or before the microphone, he is proud to be called Bryanesque, speaks with a slight German accent, likes to tell how, as an undergraduate at Harvard, he won a $100 public speaking prize which he had to go to court to collect, because his scholarship stipulated he was to receive...
...Captain Musick, and the personified "Voices" of Pan American bases at Honolulu, Midway, Wake, Guam, Manila. By a complicated use of short wave, all these scattered personalities chimed in with appropriate sentiments which were broadcast over a nationwide hookup. At Alameda a crowd of 20,000 clustered about a platform on the flat, sandy spit, paid less attention to the speeches than to the Clipper, which floated, its motors idling, a few yards off the ramp. There was little applause when Postmaster Farley arrived, looking glum. There was no applause when Governor Merriam, trudging across the beach, remarked: "Ah, footprints...
...Knox's Chicago Daily News, printed the following opinion of his boss as a Republican candidate for President: "He believes sincerely that, as President, he could alter the course of Government. I do not. I believe that, when put to the test of use, Mr. Knox's platform would remain as shiny and unmarred as the Democratic platform has been. I believe that a new hat on the White House hatrack will change the flow of events little more than a new president of Tel. & Tel. would affect our use of the telephone...
...from the enraged but helpless proletariat. "Judas!" roared the miners of Seaham at snowy-crested Candidate James Ramsay MacDonald and broke up his meetings again & again. When Ishbel MacDonald. no longer apple-cheeked but pale with strain, tried to speak for her father, she too was jeered off the platform. So was onetime Engine Greaser James Henry ("Jim") Thomas, Dominions Secretary. At the famed waxworks of Madame Tussaud, where the National Government may be seen in session any day, the dummies most definitely slated to disappear were those of Ramsay and Jim. With unction rich, Prime Minister Baldwin took...