Word: platform
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...field in preference to putting up its own. Last week this policy was emphasized by A. L. P. bigwigs convening at the Claridge to lay plans for the future. This year A. L. P.'s new assemblymen will be expected to plump for a fairly well defined platform including: 1) ratification of the child labor amendment, 2) a "little" Wagner-Steagall housing bill for New York, 3) reducing the old age pension limit to 60, 4) municipal power plants as a yardstick for rates, 5) regulation of private detective agencies...
...Horovitz was able to take shots from within four feet of the academic procession as it came down the steps of Widener, and got within 20 feet of the main platform, so his pictures are much superior to the black and white ones taken by the official University cameraman, who was stationed in a window in Thayer Hall, over 90 feet from the speakers...
...next views are taken up near the platform. There are shots of President Conant delivering citations, Governor Curley putting on his glasses before delivering a speech, and President Roosevelt nodding and applauding. The series concludes with pictures of some well soaked delegates having coffee and sandwiches in the refreshment tent...
This Hoover plan is to hold a Republican convention to draw up a platform- just as is done in Presidential elections- before next year's Congressional elections. Some Republican Congressmen, and presumably Alf Landon, fear that votes may be lost locally by a platform assaulting the New Deal. Herbert Hoover brushed this aside...
Matsumoto, sent here by the Japanese Ministry of Education, emphasized that he was not a propagandist and said that he hoped some day to speak on the same platform as his opponent for the cause of peace. He described the Chinese policy as "a dangerous policy of playing one nation against another," and blamed conditions in China for the war rather than Japanese aggression...