Word: platform
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Franklin Roosevelt a cross-country jaunt for a family reunion means a special train whose ten cars house a retinue of newspaper correspondents, radio broadcasters, photographers and secret service men. It means a series of rear platform talks, carried to the train's press car by wire and amplified for the cheering thousands behind the train. All this produces a steady crackling of political electricity, which makes Governors, Senators and Representatives stand on end to join the Presidential special as it rolls across their States...
...became Speaker of the State House of Representatives, in 1935 forced repeal of a State sales tax for relief money. Macmillan will publish Dr. Glee's The Preacher in Politics this month. Stocky, eloquent, liberal in both his ecclesiastical and political opinions, Dr. Clee will campaign on a platform of clean government and economy. Whether or not he is elected Governor in November may depend largely on how strongly Messrs. Hoffman and Powell live up to their promises to support him in the regular election...
...reduced. He reinforced it with up-to-date facts: "In 1936 our export trade with 14 countries, with which trade agreements were in effect all or part of that year, increased by 18.2% over 1935, while our trade with non-agreement countries in creased 9.2%." Not on the platform but at a press conference Cordell Hull underscored his belief still further by a prediction that a general war or economic catastrophe is inevitable within two years unless selfish nationalists give international trade a chance to function...
...some of the people in the States whose Senators were among its strongest opponents felt about his Court Plan has been on Franklin Roosevelt's schedule for a month. Last week he made up his mind to go. Plans called for one major speech, at Bonneville Dam, rear platform talks along the way. After his five busy days in Washington the President at week's end went back to Hyde Park to rest and map his itinerary. First public appearance scheduled was Cheyenne, Wyo., home of Democratic Senator Joseph C. O'Mahoney. Tentative program thereafter included...
When in 1912 a crusading parson, George R. Lunn, was elected mayor of Schenectady on a Socialist platform, he offered the job of secretary to young Mr. Lippmann. Lippmann accepted, found a few months of practical politics plenty, retired to the Maine woods to write his first book, A Preface to Politics. The book attracted the attention of the late Herbert Croly, then cogitating (with the late financier Willard Straight's backing) a U. S. liberal weekly. Croly wrote to Lippmann, urging him to sign up. When the first issue of the New Republic appeared (1914) 25-year...