Word: platform
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Lament, got a chance to advocate anything at all, he had the chance to hear two speeches ably marshaling the grievances of Business. As alert as a college debater, the Secretary thoughtfully pursed his lips while Virginia's Senator Harry F. Byrd ("We might carry out the Democratic platform") and Morgan Partner S. Parker Gilbert ("Nothing would accomplish more . . . than the repeal of the undistributed profits tax") proceeded to needle the New Deal's fiscal policy...
...rough courtyard in front of the High Commissariat Building. Softly he crooned a Turkish song: "I have waited for thee, but thou hast not come." Before a crude, hastily constructed wooden structure, he halted. Above the planking, blackly outlined against the grey dawn, dangled a loose rope. Around the platform stood silent native policemen, Syrian officials. They had gathered to witness the hanging of Mejardich Karayan, the 29-year-old Armenian assassin of U. S. Consul General J. Theodore Marriner (TIME...
...dress and interpretation, was the thing. The red-brick back wall was the only backdrop, the gadgets of a more formal theatre hung idle in the wings. The high loft, emptied of its scenery, lent itself to a grotesque play of light and shadow. Below, on a bare stage platform graded down toward the audience by three steps, the Mercury Theatre players enacted a sinister tragedy of dictatorship...
...Manhattan during the past fortnight more than 150 writers of varying prominence mounted the stage of a skyscraper auditorium and talked with characteristic author's abandon about themselves, their books, literature and each other. In Boston for six days nearly 60 authors followed each other on the platform of an improvised exhibition hall on the top floor of the Boston Herald-Traveler Building. Reason for this heavy concentration of literary talent was that the New York Times was sponsoring its second National Book Fair, the Herald-Traveler its first Boston Book Fair. The Manhattan show, held on the 38th...
...function of a university in a democracy is to pioneer in the application of rational techniques to the solution of practical problems. In this Harvard has long held a position of leadership. Harvard's willingness to negotiate illustrates that these liberal principles are not only enunciated from the lecture platform, but are also applied to the solution of its own practical labor problems...