Word: platform
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Thus the Democratic opposition this fall has at best been half-hearted and disorganized. In the primaries Tammany Hall committed the political blunder of putting up Senator Copeland on an anti- New Deal platform and was soundly trounced for its trouble by Mahoney, the hand picked Farley candidate from the Bronx, so that even should the Democratic team come out ahead, it would be a sorry victory for the boys from Union Square...
...China, were commencing to arrive in trainloads at Tokyo. Drawn window blinds concealed the most appalling cases, shattered men carried off as inert as logs wrapped in bandages. Other Japanese wounded, able to hobble about, returned home in white kimonos. All week in Tokyo wounded came in on one platform and fresh troops bound for China entrained on the next platform, entered it through a triumphal arch inscribed "CONGRATULATIONS TO OUR SOLDIERS LEAVING FOR THE FRONT...
Shortly after noon, venerable Auctioneer Nathaniel Bacon Kinsey, clad in frock coat and beaver hat, climbed a platform, whanged a bell, started knocking down dogs. A farmer wanted $50 for his wire-haired "or keep your mouth shut." Another owner demanded "$100 or nothing" for a bird dog. Neither got it. "I am damned tired of these high-valued dogs," hollered Auctioneer Kinsey. "Get me some dogs I can sell for fifty cents. Bring them up here." Setters went for two or three dollars each. Ragged farmers who needed the money tearfully parted with prized hounds (see cut). Children...
...itself with the politically bankrupt farmer-labor party in the Middle West, and this shot-gun wedding which the national leaders tried to put over on the rest of the member organizations was only averted by the stern and level-headed refusal of the Harvard group to violate its platform pledge given its members which promises not to engage in any partisan political action...
Hitched to the crack Nord Express out of Paris for Berlin, a privately chartered sleeping car was hailed in the dead of night at Cologne this week with shouts of "Heil Windsor!" Sliding into Berlin early next morning, the Duke and Duchess were met on the platform by Nazi Labor Front Leader Dr. Robert Ley who presented a bouquet of red roses. Excited German women cried "We schön sie aussieht" ("how well she looks!") while the Duchess' two maids pointed out to porters her 30 pieces of luggage, most of it still labeled "W. S." (Wallis Simpson...