Word: platform
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...more & more evidence of the storms which harried the South earlier in the week. He met the real disaster late at night when his train halted for half an hour at Gainesville where a tornado had devasted the main square of the town. There he appeared on the back platform around which 2,000 silent townspeople were grouped. "My friends," declared President Roosevelt, "I hope to come back some day at a less tragic time. . . . I shall always be very proud of the spirit you have shown...
...prepared to move back into the Senate. Already there are four other Republican candidates out for the seat now held by Senator Lester Jesse Dickinson. Aware that this split in votes would make things much easier for him in the June primaries. Candidate Brookhart put forward a platform calculated to outdo the AAA: export dumping, price-fixing on crops...
...evening last week William Edgar Borah stood on the platform in the "million-dollar ballroom" of the Eagles Lodge in Milwaukee with 1.200 Wisconsin voters ranged on chairs before him. From their standpoint the occasion was significant because the Idaho Senator was the one candidate for President who had seen fit to show himself in the flesh in their State. From his standpoint the occasion meant: 1) an expenditure of about $10, the cost of a round-trip ticket from Chicago and a night's lodging at Milwaukee's Republican Hotel; 2) a one-night campaign to capture...
Exceeding the regular capacity of Sanders by 500, this huge audience was jammed in the aisles, at the sides of the hall, and even along the edges of the lecture platform. So many wanted to hear the last lecture in the current Charles Eliot Norton series, entitled "After the End of a Poem," that fully 400 people had to be turned away...
...Last week some 200 sky-lovers gathered at Detroit's Institute of Arts to hear tousle-haired Dr. Shapley discourse on "Exploring the Galaxy." This talk was to be illustrated with stereopticon slides. Few minutes before lecture time a man from the projection room scuttled up to the platform, confessed to the astronomer that the slides had been mislaid. Squirming and damp-browed. Dr. Shapley whispered hoarsely to the man who was about to introduce...