Word: platform
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Nominee & Platform. Two days after his nomination, Sinclair lit out for Hyde Park to receive the congratulations of a highly embarrassed President. Like the fabled Dutchman and the non-stop salt machine, the President was discovering that his New Deal liberalism was undamming an undisciplined torrent of independent Leftist movements all over the country: Huey Long's Share-the-Wealth Clubs, Prestonia Mann Martin's "Commons & Capitals," Dr. Francis Everett Townsend's pension scheme (TIME. Oct. 15). There was an EPIW in Washington. Some 200,000 persons were said to be enrolled in the Utopian Society...
...result of his Eastern junket, word was spread through the Democracy that genial Mr. Sinclair could be "handled." Told off to do the handling in California were Messrs. McAdoo and Creel. At the Democratic State Convention the party platform failed to mention the name EPIC, made no commitments as to the Sinclair proposals for land colonies, scrip, bond issues, high income taxes or pensions. EPIC was emasculated save for pledges to put the unemployed to work at productive labor, enabling them to produce what they could consume; to put the State's credit and resources behind cooperative self-help...
...close sympathy with the Orthodox communion, and that in the front row of his audience sat a distinguished convention guest-Rev. Sergius Bulgakov, dean of the Russian Orthodox Seminary in Paris. His eyes blazing and his long beard flying. Professor Bulgakov strode up to the chairman on the platform, exclaimed: "You have sinned against God in permitting that man to speak!" Next day New Jersey's Bishop Matthews, as host to General Convention, made public apology: "It grieves me to the heart that an unofficial spokesman for this church should have offended in this way. I regret most deeply...
...student stood up on the platform, began: "I only wish to bring a message to the enslaved Italian students who are being tricked. ..." A professor shoved him from the microphone. While the guttersnipes joyfully rose to join battle with their gentlemanly fellows, the visiting Italians were quietly led out a back door. The brawl lasted 15 minutes. Afterward 1,000 students met in the college stadium for a rousing Fascist-cursing rally. Eleven ringleaders were suspended from college...
...Fascist and Party Secretary, in his retinue, sped Head-of-the-State Benito Mussolini to build up the morale of that industrial region where bitter unemployment persists. En route Il Duce cajoled Italian peasants at their harvesting, speaking from a truck, a threshing machine, a motorcar, a platform built like the prow of a ship, and from a Hitler-taunting replica of the ox-drawn battle carts with which the Lombard League in the 12th Century repulsed Teutonic Frederick Barbarossa...