Word: platform
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Eight times he ran for Congress on a platform of Justice-for-Navyites, once received as many as 776 votes. Five times a bill to pay the claims was passed by Senate or House, but never by both. One by one the claimants died off, but Lawyer Mann's obsession only grew more virulent with the years...
...promptly kicked out the machine Democrats who, by grace of Boss Vare, had for years played piccolo in Philadelphia's political orchestra. Today City Boss Kelly can and has told State Boss Guffey what he would and would not permit. This week he is running for Mayor on the platform of a 5¢ fare (in place of 7½¢ tokens), WPA money to rebuild Philadelphia's slums, sandblasting for the outside of the City Hall, ejection of bums who sleep in its corridors, an eight instead of a five-hour day for city employes. His nomination is conceded...
...through the night about their work, but they seldom resort to gunfire. In Mexico, art is taken much more seriously. Last week a sober crowd of black-coated schoolteachers filled the auditorium of the Palace of Fine Arts in Mexico City for a conference on Progressive Education. On the platform Painter David Alfaro Siquieros, one of the founders of the famed Revolutionary Syndicate of Technical Workers, Painters & Sculptors (now defunct) that first brought Mexican mural painting to the world's attention, was expounding his theories. Up from a rear row seat suddenly sprang the best-known member of that syndicate...
...sore throat at Hyde Park. Sadly disappointed, but still hoping that Son Franklin Jr. might appear, the delegates sat down to listen to a speech by Pennsylvania's Governor George H. Earle. Midway in his speech a lanky youth of 19 stepped out on the flag-decked platform unannounced, sidled toward a chair. With a happy roar, the delegates leaped to their feet, charged up to the platform, shunted Governor Earle aside as they fought to shake the hand of Youngest Son John Roosevelt...
...Dalles, Ore. American Legion State Convention, when Legionaries put on a burlesque hula-hula dance in costume, a bystander playfully poked a lighted match into Legionary Olaf Nelson's grass skirt. The skirt blazed briskly. Olaf Nelson ran screaming from the platform, died...