Word: platform
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...from the car came to the platform and indicated that he wanted to speak to me. 'Mr. Rockefeller is in that car,' he whispered, 'he wants to speak to the miners.' It was difficult for me to believe that anyone could so misunderstand a situation. 'For God's sake tell Mr. Rockefeller to leave here at once,' I replied, 'he may be killed, if these men find out he is here.' " Mr. Rockefeller left...
...ticked away, but their spirit will linger--to be cherished, to be fought for, to be preserved. At Boston Common, Legionnaires will march for Peace. At the Friends' Center, pacifists will debate for Peace. The Massachusetts Youth Committee will distribute exhortative pamphlets. The Anti-War Committee will preach their platform for Peace. The Student Union will counter with theirs. Every voice in the country will be raised towards...
...inevitable lot as a result of the Browder affair. This time it will be the liberal press to start up aghast at a "suppression of free speech" by the nation's ancient stronghold of academic liberalism. The mere fact that Browder has been denied the use of a University platform will be enough for most earnest advocates of civil rights. Others of liberal persuasion will see in this a part of the current Dies-ignited red-baiting campaign. The total effect is another black eye for Harvard--and Harvard undergraduates can only reflect that the whole business is unfortunate, unjustified...
...social security standards," the War Crisis will be used to undermine American democracy. Again in Number Six, the "democratic extension of the Good Neighbor Policy" is illegitimately linked to the quick settlement of the oil dispute with Mexico--one of the favorite planks in the American Student Union's platform. On almost every point the Student Union has failed to keep the objective fairness that a poll demands. Except for the first two questions and parts of the fourth--which are clear enough to allow straight "yes" or "no"--the University may rightfully consider that the rest of the dice...
...good friend and collaborator, a tiny, wrinkled, white-haired spinster, by name Mile Gabrielle Desgrées du Lou. This lady, who must enroll as a student in order to get in the Sorbonne," does Père Jousse's gestures for him on the platform. While chanting, for example, Jesus' parable of the houses built on sand and on rock, Mile Desgrées du Lou rolls her eyes, waves her arms, twists and sways like.a ballet dancer. When Père Jousse lectures, 200 people watch goggle-eyed: doctors, spiritualists, philologists, ballet students, poets (among them...