Word: platform
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...platform of the special train returning him to Washington after a restful week-end at his mother's farm, the nation's Boss Man gave a cheerful waggle of his head. "There's something in that," said...
...acre estate on the Main Line at swank Devon where he takes his own and neighbors' small children for rides on his mile-long miniature railroad (see cut), promptly established a residence in Philadelphia by renting an apartment, the address of which he is constantly forgetting.- "My platform," he announced in fastidious Bostonese, "will be the Horse & Buggy, or Save the Constitution." In the Republican split of 1912 Boies Penrose temporarily lost his State leadership to the Bull Moose faction, which included an ardent Young Roosevelt worshipper named Gifford Pinchot. While one set of Philadelphia voters was lifting...
...mildly progressive Senator Frederick Steiwer to sound the Party keynote at Cleveland next June. Republican newspapers tried to make the gesture seem important. Democratic sheets gleefully compared the probable content of Senator Steiwers address with his voting record in Congress. Still remembered was big, friendly Steiwer's enigmatic platform when he began his first term as U. S. Senator in 1926: "The safety of American government depends upon loyalty to the fundamental principles of right and wrong...
Lobster-pink on the platform last week he cried...
...Onto a platform at Philadelphia's Temple University climbed Oswald Garrison Villard, oldtime editor of the Nation, to deliver a ringing peace message. Into the meeting charged a flying wedge of unsympathetic Temple athletes who pelted the demonstrators with lemons and vegetables, triumphantly upset the speakers' platform...