Word: platform
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Washington to the Statue of Liberty in New York Harbor (see p. 27), made a triumphal 30-mi. tour of the city, swung back through Wilkes-Barre and other Pennsylvania towns, to Camden, N. J., Wilmington and Washington, only to start again, reinvade Brooklyn, have his hour upon the platform in Madison Square Garden, and finally go home up the Hudson...
Dean Leighton '19, Dean of Freshmen, introduced President Conant and was the only other person on the platform...
...highly successful speech because a court refused him an injunction against police interference, because 200 hoodlums with rotten eggs and soft tomatoes blocked his way into the radio station where he was to broadcast. Next he went to Tampa where he had just started to speak from a platform in an empty lot when a dozen hoodlums rushed in, knocked down several of his supporters with clubs and pistol butts, picked up the platform from behind, slid Nominee Browder and platform guests off into the dirt...
...having to offer a neighbor a lift. Yearly he entertains his employes in the Tribune Tower lobby. Remarked Cousin Joe Patterson at one of these affairs: "Bert certainly likes to crack the whip and watch the serfs march by." Under the Tribune masthead each day has appeared "The Tribune platform for 1936: Turn the Rascals Out." Last week the Tribune editorial columns were devoted to the thesis that Franklin Roosevelt deliberately planned and abetted the banking panic of 1933 in order to set the stage for his long-plotted revolution and dictatorship. In this and in many another attack...
...platform of Philadelphia's Irvine Auditorium one night last week stood two eminent U. S. surgeons. Dr. Donald Church Balfour of Rochester, Minn., husband of the elder daughter of the elder Mayo Brother, was wearing cap & gown. Dr. Eugene Hillhouse Pool of Manhattan stood in evening dress. Suddenly with a great grin, Dr. Balfour took off his mortarboard, clapped it on the thin grey thatch of Dr. Pool. Thus playfully did Dr. Balfour symbolize the fact that he was passing on to Dr. Pool the presidency of the American College of Surgeons, convened before them for its annual meeting...