Word: platform
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...years a fixture of the Federation as familiar as the red-white-&-blue bunting over the speakers' platform has been the squabble within the building trades group. It began with a series of jurisdictional disputes among the affiliated craft unions, following which the three biggest unions in the group (carpenters, bricklayers, electricians) withdrew from the Building Trades Department of the Federation but not from the Federation itself. At the San Francisco convention last year, the "triple alliance" sought and was given readmission. That called for re-election of officers within the Department, a move which brought howls from...
...been as sterile as the Sahara desert. Devoting all their attention to discrediting Rooseveltian ideas, they have given the public no intimation of the program they would follow if elected to office. As in 1932, so in 1936, recovery will be the fundamental issue. The Republicans must offer a platform which, while conservative, yet offers to the common people a tangible hope for better times. They must fight the vast grants of federal funds with some program which will appeal to the hearts and purses of that vast populace who listen to the gospels of such demagogues as the late...
...anything than when it does. By continuing to go about making speeches, friends, contacts, Frank Knox has put himself far ahead of any potential rivals, has in the past 30 days begun to take his candidacy in dead earnest. When the time comes for him to set up a platform, Frank Knox, like all the other Republican candidates for the nomination, will perforce make one from what they consider Franklin Roosevelt's mistakes. To date he stands broadly for Economy and the Constitution. He advocates social justice without the New Deal, an agricultural export subsidy for the Farmers instead...
Fortnight ago a chesty little Italian stood on the platform in Manhattan's Grand Central Station, proudly watching a train pull out for Montreal. Aboard it was his San Carlo Opera Company, starting on its 26th consecutive season, solidly booked for 35 weeks. Chesty little Fortune Gallo has long challenged anyone who says that opera cannot pay. San Carlo's record last week again proved him right. The Company played in Montreal, Ottawa, Hamilton, Toronto.* During the week 25,000 persons crowded to hear Fortune Gallo's troupers...
...programs, John B. Kennedy becomes the narrator. John B. Kennedy has the positive and sure voice of dignity. He thought so when he was a student at St. Louis University before the Great War. His great opportunity to show it came when he was scheduled to appear on a platform in the college quad with two other students. They were going to tell just why they thought Woodrow Wilson, Teddy Roosevelt, and Howard Taft should be the next president. In this exercise in civics, John B. was to speak in behalf of President Taft. He walked in gave his speech...