Word: platform
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...answered with a vigorous, "I do!" Although twelve other men had stood up to be sworn in for a second term as President, only five had been reinaugurated as Vice President.-More unusual, Jack Garner became the first Vice President to take his oath of office on the same platform as the President instead of separately in the Senate chamber. Unique, he was chief officer of the nation for the minute or two that passed before the main drama of the occasion was enacted by Franklin Roosevelt and Chief Justice Hughes. This act was a dramatization of the Constitutional issue...
Meyers Co. (Albany, N. Y.), asserting that adoption of the platform would "change the form of distribution in this country for the next 50 years." Yet Harry Schachter of Kaufman-Straus Co. (Louisville, Ky.) flatly announced that the merchants of his city were behind the platform "100%." After this confused reception, the platform was hastily shoved underground into the hands of the resolutions committee. Most of the merchants felt they were being pushed into something about which they knew very little. And among some the conviction was growing that after all uniform Federal regulation for industry as a whole might...
...bounds." Something the retail leaders wanted to keep in bounds quite as much as prices was internal opposition to the "little NRA" outlined by the Dry Goods Association directors at Atlantic City last autumn (TIME, Dec. 7). Put up to the membership last week, the proposed platform called for minimum wages, maximum hours, fair trade provisions and a ban on child labor-all on a voluntary basis buttressed by State statutes. Coming as it did right after the election, the proposal looked -ike a shrewd attempt to head off Federal regulation along the same lines. When presented to the assembled...
...week gave $10,000,000 into the hands of three private trustees "to give practical shape to current expressions of good will toward King George and at the same time do anything I can to support the National Government, particularly Prime Minister Stanley Baldwin.'' Seated on a platform at Oxford University recently, plain Lord Nuffield. who grew up in Oxfordshire from bicycle tinkerer to motors tycoon, was so affected by the intoxicating words in which Oxonians thanked him for giving their medical school $6,250,000 that he got to his feet and cried out he would give...
...concern was to harangue Cuba's peasants, farmers, canefield workers, sugar growers and the like, about his own pet form of "dictatorship" which is neither Fascism nor Stalinism, but Batistism. Like all devotees of isms, "The Savior of Cuba" has at least one cranky plank in his platform. This is a scheme to put a 9?-tax on every bag of sugar produced in Cuba and use the proceeds, estimated at $2,000,000 a year, to educate peasant children in rural schools run by Army officers. At least 100,000 peasants, to judge from their delirious enthusiasm, last...