Word: platform
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Canadian Province of Alberta last week defaulted payment of $3,200,000 principal on two matured 6% bond issues issued in 1916, thus became the first Canadian Government to welsh on a financial obligation. Elected on a platform promising ''$25 a month dividends to every citizen." Alberta's sanctimonious, bulb-eyed Premier William C. Aberhart explained: "We haven't the money. I'm sorry." Fact was that ''Bible Bill" Aberhart had inherited a $150,000,000 load of indebtedness from his predecessors, had only $140,000 with which to make an interest "token...
...campaigning in 1936, changed his mind and whipped together a slate of EPIC delegates nominally committed to making that onetime Socialist the Democratic nominee for President. Actually, however, Mr. Sinclair stressed that he will support Roosevelt at the Democratic convention, aims only to have EPIC well represented for platform-making purposes. Unfortunately for the Sinclairs, however, State Chairman Olson, EPIC's strongest practical politician, is personally at odds with Upton Sinclair and is not on the Sinclair slate...
...state in Herbert Hoover's plans. Dear to his heart, dearer even than his desire to be the Republican nominee again, is this issue: Individualism v. the New Deal. To force that issue he must have a deciding voice in the national convention which writes the Republican platform, picks the Republican candidate. To run in California's primary, however, would have been to risk repudiation in his home State, to endanger his whole aim. Three stanch allies he had who shared his aims: Publisher George Toland Cameron of the San Francisco Chronicle; Publisher Joseph Russell Knowland...
...Speech- By the time ardent Nazis dared breathe again Adolf Hitler was standing on a platform on top of a half-finished locomotive while blinding searchlights from traveling cranes high in the dusty rafters picked out his tiny figure. For an hour and a half he talked, saying nothing that no German had not heard a hundred times before...
...natty checked suit, Alfred Emanuel Smith ascended to the observation platform of Manhattan's Empire State Building accepted a ten-gallon hat from beauteous Irene Caldwell, official hostess of the Texas Centennial Exposition. He gave her a brown derby for Texas' Governor James V. Allred, grabbed her nape, planted a resounding kiss on her cheek, offered to do it all over again for the photographers...