Word: platform
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...thin ranks to declare for U. S. recognition of Russia, and the innocence of Tom Mooney. Nor has he had a change of heart over twice bolting the Republican Party, once to join Roosevelt's "Bull Moose" campaign, again in 1924 to run independently on an anti-Klan platform for Governor of Kansas ("they call it Klansas," he said) when he polled enough votes to break the Kansas Klan's back...
...potent in Portland were these families of cousins that in 1930 the first member of either to take a flyer in politics, President Julius L. Meier, was promptly and overwhelmingly elected Governor of Oregon. Depression, however, made this a discouraging experience. Committed to a public power ownership platform, Governor Meier was thwarted by thrifty opponents who objected to his private telephone from capitol to store, his installation of the first private lavatory in the Governor's office. Furthermore, his pet financial hobby, the American National Bank of Portland, took the Bank Holiday of 1933 with such relief that...
...General Graves to deliver a shipment of guns when he discovered a plot to use them against his own men. But what hurt most was to read in the screaming newspapers from home that all of them, including General Graves, were Bolsheviks to a man. On a railway platform Alfred saw his big, good-natured brother killed in cold blood by a White Russian colonel...
...quarters of the population of British India. Taking returns from all provinces into account, the Party of Gandhi won a nation-wide majority as impressive as that won last autumn by Franklin Delano Roosevelt.* This popular mandate went to a party which had gone to the polls with a platform of opposing the new Constitution...
...peace rally, which has already secured the support of the Dean's office, will again be held indoors. It has not yet been definitely decided whether the "Oxford Pledge" will be an integral part of the strike's platform. At the same time, numerous sidelines are under tentative consideration, such as food fasts, and the sale to those attending the strike of white feathers suitable for wearing...