Word: platform
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Some 3,000 pair of eyes were glued on the two chairmen as, each in a natty light brown suit with handkerchief peeping from breast pocket, they mounted the Forum platform in the Grand Ballroom of Manhattan's Waldorf-Astoria one afternoon last week. The rivals grinned, clasped hands...
...acquaintances, sat down side by side, chatted amiably while news cameras flashed. Each one listened attentively, applauded warmly as the other delivered an unwontedly temperate state ment of his Party's case. Speeches over, they left the platform...
...Moines. No sounder token of his candidacy had he received when, on his arrival at Trenton, Mo., a woman held up an infant to the rear platform. Its name was Alfred Landon Claybrook, born June 30, 1936. Instead of kissing it the candidate patted its cheek, said: "He's a fine looking young man." After seven stops en route, the Landon Special pulled into Des Moines. The city's Democrats had apparently monopolized the streets near the railroad station to give the GOP Nominee the cold stare. Reception grew warmer as the procession reached the business section. Opposite...
...Public Instruction, introduce Alf Landon. The candidate however was nowhere to be seen. Suddenly great spotlights sought out the west gate of the race track. Riding down the beam came Alf Landon in the tonneau of his car, waving to the crowd. In a moment he was on the platform. When a five-minute demonstration had subsided he began...
...York Stock Exchange ever since the nation's first market place began to feel the Depression impact of public hostility. Even after a revolt of the membership boosted Charles R. Gay into presidency of the Exchange on what was supposed to be a New Deal platform, the idea of advertising remained unpalatable to the Governors. It was quite proper that President Gay should stump from coast-to-coast in an effort to "educate" the public. But to do it with the written word, bought & paid for, seemed to many an oldster on the Floor to be no less shocking...