Word: platform
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...rabidly pro-Roosevelt New York Post this voice was the "voice of liberalism; the platform is that of Coolidge." Actually it was the typical voice of the old-line Democrat, the Democrat who would like, but does not dare, to say the same things on the Senate floor. For the Baruch testimony was by no means a one-way damnation. Asked if he thought business had done its share, the white-haired old financier replied: "Business has not cleaned up its own stable, it has not met the Government people in the fullest spirit of co-operation." Eloquently he urged...
...this entails, look at TVA from different angles and are equally uncompromising. Because Harcourt Morgan agrees with David Lilienthal, practical result has been a constant 2-to-1 collision on the Board, which has led Chairman Morgan to carry his fight out of the boardroom and onto the lecture platform. Last week, he thought he had enough ammunition to carry the TVA Schism to Congress...
...this advice which the Dictator rejected when he decided to wipe out the kulaks, crack down on private traders, and industrialize at super speed. It was made more like a confession by Bukharin's describing it in court last week as "the platform for the restoration of Capitalism, as we visualized it"-whereas neither Editor Bukharin nor his readers in 1929 visualized it as anything but a slower, perhaps better way to "build Socialism...
...open fight on the convention floor, the Association's officials brought in to the final session a resolution ducking a commitment on specific Federal aid legislation until after study of the Reeves Committee's full report, not yet published. Unappeased, Professor Strayer strode to the auditorium platform to again demand "separation of Church and State," boomed: "If this movement develops sufficient strength, we may find ourselves in the not distant future committed to a program which will deny to the people the control of their schools." But he made no effort to amend the resolution. At the week...
Whether the Committee is sincere or not will be decided by the Seniors who are being approached and asked to sign its petition. In any case, enough of the Committee's platform is so untenable as to make the casual observer doubt any significant outcome...