Word: platform
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Biggest national event of last week was the dedication of Chicago's new Centennial Bridge (see p. 61). Standing on a platform on the south plaza of the bridge looking down into the faces of as many Chicagoans as could cram the new drive, Dedicator Franklin Roosevelt, homing from the West, tossed his chin in air and cried: "It is because the people of the United States under modern conditions must, for the sake of their own future, give thought to the rest of the world, that I, as the responsible executive head of the nation, have chosen this...
...Davis' platform has been concerned with economy in the voters' money. Combatting the disadvantages of his youth, he has declared that an early start will ensure a longer career of men with experience and consequently his election will be valuable to the community not only now but later...
Until this week the sharpest turning point in the career of the Rev. Dr. Prof. L&233;vitt occurred in 1932 when his Independent Republican Party, with a Prohibition platform, drew enough votes from Boss J. Henry Roraback's candidates to insure some New Deal successes, although Gubernatorial Candidate L&233;vitt himself got only about 10,000 votes. For his services the New Deal, in a hasty move, took Mr. L&233;vitt to Washington as a special assistant to Attorney General Homer Cummings, himself a onetime Connecticut politician. Before long, zealous Dr. L&233;vitt was circularizing...
Presents which accompanied Premier Mussolini as he entrained for Rome-and II Duce was the last person to climb aboard, after which Der Führer on the platform talked to him animatedly through an open window until the car moved off- included three crates of "rare geese" presented by the Berlin Zoo, while the City of Hanover gave Equestrian Mussolini a silver statuette of a charger, the flesh and blood original to be sent to him in Rome. On II Duce's arrival, screaming men and women raced forward waving flags and handkerchiefs with cries to their Dictator...
...Carnegie Hall. His lectures are free, but those interested could subscribe to a $15 course of study. As he always does, Dr. de Quevedo lectured sitting and .lolling on a table, and as always, called his listeners "darlings." So amiable, so vigorously sincere was Dr. de Quevedo's platform style, that his middle-aged female audience seemed well satisfied with the content of his message-mainly that will power can accomplish anything. Dr. de Quevedo's rules for developing will power: 1) "Go out of your way to look for responsibilities. 2) Console yourself while employed in menial...