Word: platform
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Scotsmen or Welshmen. But last week a heavy guard of Bobbies at Euston Station were swept aside like chaff by a crowd of grinning Irishmen who were more than willing to punch the nose of any officer who resisted. With shouts of "WE WANT DEV!", the Irish captured a platform up to which rolled a train bearing President Eamon de Valera. They clawed and climbed their way to the roof of the train -something which in England "isn't done" -cheered and waved Irish flags while the President of Eire was distinctly of two minds. Should he come...
After listening to the Glee Club sing several Mozart songs and the Radcliffe Choral Society present some Shubert waltzes, they marched onto the platform, one of their number (whose only tell-tale mark seem to be a well developed mid-riff) stepped out in front an proceeded very capably to direct the group in two Mozart selections and a French carol. "Les Anges dans nos Campagne...
Having been elected Governor of Mississippi two years ago on a novel platform -to keep the late Huey Long from annexing that State to his domain-millionaire Lumberman Hugh White has since ably maintained his reputation for originality. When a reporter once asked him about his favorite hobby, the 250-lb. Governor shyly replied: "A lot of fellows think I'm kidding when I say it ... but what I would rather do than anything else is to sit on the fence and listen to a little pig three months old crack corn. That...
...Playmakers at University of North Carolina, been an actor on Broadway, managed a lecture bureau and directed Columbia University's Institute of Arts and Sciences before he arrived at Town Hall in 1930. The League, founded by a group of women suffragists, had for 40 years provided a platform for civic reformers, outstanding Americans from William Jennings Bryan to Will Rogers, and music concerts. But George Denny conceived a bigger mission for Town Hall. With a zealot's belief that revival of the old New England town meeting was needed to make democracy work, he began...
...make clear that I am not heading a pro-fascist organization. The Organization has made one of the principal points of the constitution that was adopted by a unanimous vote at the first meeting, that it, opposes Fascism and Communism, and in strict adherence to its purpose, its platform stand for neutrality in Spain...