Word: platform
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Vice President H. L. Derby of American Cyanamid Co. who declared: "That was a fine, courageous action of yours, appearing here this morning." In spite of the fact that most of the N. A. M.'s members are reconciled to collective bargaining, they managed to write a labor platform that would appeal to organized labor about as much as an anti-picketing injunction. The manufacturers asked for the easing of Federal and State restrictions on the use of labor injunctions. They asked that the Byrnes Act be amended to ban interstate transportation of "strike-makers" as well as strike...
Impeccably groomed journalists on the platform of Liverpool Street Station were mistaken for a reception committee of impeccably groomed British statesmen last week by arriving King Christian X of Denmark. After shaking hands with them, His Majesty noticed their notebooks and pencils, remarked easily, "I see you are writers. I'll give you no trouble and will be a good...
...Depend on Stalin!" Russia's Dictator, famed for his heavy, sardonic humor, was in his best form last week as constituents of the Stalin district of Moscow jampacked a large theatre. They looked for Candidate Stalin. He was not on the platform, packed with lesser Bolsheviks. He was hidden in the depths of one of the boxes. Finally he left his box, suddenly appeared on the stage. The house went wild...
...Germans. As the sleeping car of Yvon Delbos rolled into Berlin, it was unprecedented and highly significant that German Foreign Minister Baron Constantin von Neurath should be on the platform to greet the French Foreign Minister. Baron von Neurath called out in everyone's hearing an expression of his pleasure that the Paris Exposition this year brought 100,000 German visitors to France, then climbed aboard the train for a conference which smiling M. Delbos said afterward had unfortunately been all too short. Such goings on and such words would have seemed incredible a few months or weeks...
...Roosevelt landslide. Internally the N.A.M. has also changed-into a pressagent for Industry. Legal and statistical departments continue to operate, but the real job of its permanent personnel is selling what N.A.M. calls the "American Way" to the U. S. public. It furnishes newspapers with free stories, provides platform and radio speakers with free speeches, has made four cinema shorts including one on standards of living. It teaches businessmen how to create local goodwill by opening their plants to public inspection tours. And N.A.M.'s were the sanguine posters that dotted the highways early last year, showing nattily dressed...