Word: platform
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Last night, for the first time in Harvard history, Communism and Socialism were heard from the same platform when Powers Hapgood '21, Socialist leader, and Harry Gannes, editor of the "Daily Worker," spoke in the New Lecture Hall to urge student opposition to all war. One method can achieve peace, according to the speakers, and that is to make both students and workers more loyal to their cause than to their government...
Everyone cheers. The crowd goes wild. The cloud of tobacco smoke eddies and swirls with the commotion. Another of the platform heroes steps forward. "Now, I don't want to speak ill of the dead," be begins. Silence. "So I won't say anything against Bacon." Again silence. He waits. Number 1 of the twin-bellies laughs uproariously. The crowd laughs. The speaker has said something fanny. More humor. The crowd laughs some more. The band plays "My Wild Irish Rose...
...women of Waukesha. the President of the United States has been insulted by a previous speaker on this program in a reprehensible and personal way; and while I may differ with Democratic policy, I will not stand for that kind of attack. I therefore refuse to speak upon this platform and I will return to Waukesha at a later date...
Seven weeks ago Wisconsin's Democratic Governor, 69-year-old Albert Schmedeman, troubled with varicose veins, put down his foot unsteadily while descending from a speakers' platform, slipped, injured his ankle. Infection set in and his leg was amputated above the knee (TIME. Oct. 15). Howard Greene, his Republican opponent, declared on the stump that it was cruel of the Democratic organization to force a crippled man to continue the campaign. Last week political quidnuncs estimated that, although Mr. Greene had not been as inept as Mr. Gay, he, too, had lost votes by his remark...
...whom were not above using pseudonyms to get the Senator's bounty twice, had "borrowed" $3,000. 5,000 students and townspeople last week clambered aboard five special 14-coach trains painted red, white, blue, orange and green. Going through Mississippi, Huey Long stood on the rear platform of the first train, waving and shouting at crowds assembled on station platforms, farmers working in fields. With him were the members of his private bodyguard, whom he had arranged to take along as "deputy game wardens...