Word: platform
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Ersatz. Of the hour and a half speech which followed, during which Orator Hitler slowly worked himself up to normal platform frenzy, a half hour was devoted to a labored introduction rehearsing events "since the abdication of the Kaiser," for "fairness requires that our results be judged by what would have happened if we had not conquered!" Bolshevism would have happened, according to Chancellor Hitler, but he admitted with truly brutal frankness that what is happening now is a boycott of Germany such that her people face having to return this winter to eating Ersatz, the substitute foods they grew...
...with it. They saw Boy Scout trumpeters leading mile-long parades down every Main Street. They saw parents and civic leaders of every town & city from Violette, Maine to Sap, Calif, gathered in mass meetings, with all of each town's choirs, orchestras and clergymen massed on the platform. They heard all these peal out "I Love to Tell the Story." In the midst of each assemblage they saw a little band of consecrated folk stand up to chant: "Now we dedicate ourselves anew to this high service, trusting in the Lord Jesus Christ for strength...
...Pioneer Woman," and then went bankrupt. He always felt that he had been euchred out of control of his Marland Oil Co. by unscrupulous financiers and when in 1932 he was elected to Congress, he kept up a steady racket against "the wolves of Wall Street." His gubernatorial platform: "A New Deal for Oklahoma," a State police system. State subsistence homesteads, wildlife conservation...
...other young men & women at the Choosing A Career Conference sponsored by L. Bamberger & Co. (department store) in Newark, N. J. last week. It was the question uppermost in the minds of thousands of 1934 college graduates. It was the question which the successful careerists on the conference platform found the most difficult to answer. Said the young man in a sweater: "This is all very interesting, but what I want to know is where...
...young man wanted to talk about jobs-in-particular while his elders on the platform wanted to give advice about jobs-in-general. That advice ranged all the way from Railroader Leonor Fresnel Loree's bitterly comic counsel, "find a permanent job and stick to it," to sincere attempts at appraising the future in specific fields. Excerpts...