Word: platform
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...feel that if the H.A.A. rigidly adheres to these principles, Mr. Harlow will have the opportunity to turn out teams which will win universal respect. With such a platform, any questions raised by Mr. Harlow's previous coaching positions will become unimportant, since he will avoid in the future any pressure from administrative officials...
With this hope they sat down to draft a platform expounding their economic ideas for recovery. For three days in smoke-filled rooms, under the placating influence of Owen D. Young, they worked to disguise their instinctive distrust of the Roosevelt Administration in language that would promote amity and cooperation. Chief points in their 5,000-word platform...
When the 90 tycoons had finished this platform, they looked upon it, thought it a friendly overture. Chairman Ames of the conference put it under his arm and started to Washington to offer it and his own right hand to President Roosevelt. But a Right hand can never know for sure when a Left hand will shake and when it will not. At the White House Presidential Secretary Marvin Mclntyre told Mr. Ames that the President was too busy to see him that...
Paris and London had sent glowing reports of the second Menuhin prodigy, whose parents have kept her clear of the concert platform until this year (TIME, Dec. 10). But New Yorkers had to hear for themselves before they would believe that she had half the talent of her idolized brother. The youthful pair chose a program which would have taxed most grown-up musicians. They played Mozart's A Major Sonata (No. 42), Schumann's D Minor, Beethoven's Kreutzer. Hephzibah, a husky tow-head like Yehudi, wore a long peach-colored dress that did not advertise...
...flawless in shading and design. The teamwork throughout was beyond approach. Applause was all that bewildered Hephzibah who went on & off stage clinging tightly to Yehudi's hand. He could not make her bow. But if Father and Mother Menuhin have their way Hephzibah will never require a platform manner. Though they have been besieged with offers from all over the U. S., last week's Manhattan appearance was all they would permit. If Hephzibah can be argued out of a concert career her parents will be happier. Says Father Moshe Menuhin: "Catching airplanes, boats and trains...