Word: platform
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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President-emeritus Lowell will play a new role on Commencement, for instead of awarding a host of degrees and welcoming thousands into "the ranks of educated men" as he did for the past 24 years he will sit on the platform and receive an honorary degree from his alma mater...
Since Governor Pinchot had campaigned on a platform appropriated from his Democratic friend Franklin D. Roosevelt and since Senator Reed had spent most of his time on the hustings damning the Administration, the primary had been widely touted as the New Deal's first ordeal by ballot box. Day after the primary, Pennsylvanians woke to find that they had not only recorded their sovereign electoral will but had also been cast as a political oracle for the country. A host of strictly partisan interpreters at once gave tongue...
...talking parlor-liberal New York minister, John Haynes Holmes, has again stood on a platform; this time he tells us that civilization is doomed; and evidently he expects people to believe that civilization is doomed. But Mr. Holmes does not prove conclusively why one should believe it nor does he prove that be should know whereof be speaks. Perhaps he really does not know anything about the matter. But proof or no proof, Mr. Holmes is saying something, which, even if it lacks the backing of proof or fact certainly has the support that a new idea never...
...support I gave to war is a deep condemnation on my soul. . . . Men cannot have Christ and war at the same time. I renounce war." Such a fervent outpouring of words came last week not from some pacifist who makes a living on the lecture platform, not from some battle-scarred veteran who had staggered back from the depths, but from a brisk and business-like Man of God named Harry Emerson Fosdick. During the War Dr. Fosdick had "stimulated raiding parties to their murderous tasks'' from Y. M. C. A. huts behind the lines. Today...
...Paris and he set them against the worldly knowledge of ancient Europe. Because he saw a vision he felt the people could not perish. In this spirit he sought to make a peace with the aid of a politician who had received his mandate from the people on the platform of "Hang the Kaiser" and a statesman called the "Tiger." Before the bitterness and diplomacy of these men the dream shriveled, concession followed concession, the concert of the nations lapsed into dissonance, and the dreamer returned to the repudiation of his own people. It was a dreary peace. Perhaps...