Word: platform
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...heard anything like the roar which went up as the Nominee was driven slowly around the infield behind an Uncle Sam leading a donkey. Over the grandstands gleamed his floodlighted portrait, 40 ft. high, captioned HE SAVED AMERICA. Exhilarated by this hero's welcome, Franklin Roosevelt mounted a platform over second base to tell Pittsburgh and the nation how he had done it, justify the money it had cost...
...From a Manhattan platform, unhappy Alfred E. Smith (see p. 18) snarled at the New Deal: "Why, even a Communist with wire whiskers and a smoking bomb in his hand is welcome, as long as he signs on the dotted line...
Speaking on a Republican National Committee radio broadcast, Plowman Peek declared he had decided to support Nominee Landon because "the Republican platform promises three things of paramount importance to agriculture...
...years of agricultural agitation, as the basis of the McNary-Haugen bill he instigated and lobbied through Congress to be twice vetoed by President Coolidge. In 1932, said Mr. Peek last week, he rushed to the Roosevelt bandwagon because these same principles were stated in the Democratic platform and reiterated by Nominee Roosevelt in campaign speeches. "I was fooled by President Roosevelt's promises; I believe that Governor Landon is the kind of man who keeps his promises," concluded George Peek...
When the friends of Governor Landon devote a large share of their time and energy to an attempt to prove the "red Sympathies" of President Roosevelt, that tacitly admit that they have no issue in the present campaign and no platform fit to be discussed in front of the American electorate...