Word: platformate
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Volpe was referring to a plank in the Democratic platform which calls for major reform of State government by abolition of the Governor's Executive Council. The same proposal was rejected by a Democratic controlled legislature earlier this year...
...parade of caps and gowns, Marshall, dressed in a business suit and with hat in hand, slowly walked to the platform and acknowledged the appreciative applause along the way. A loud ovation greeted him as he reached the stage...
Workman plans to appeal to both conservative Democrats and Republicans with a platform attacking "the welfare state, the diminution of local government and the grab for power in Washington." But Johnston does not seem worried. "I'll cross that bridge when I come to it." he says, "but I think I'll have a good strong bridge to go across. I'm not fearin' it very much...
...Smith spent nearly 36 years in what he called ''The Cave of the Winds," dazzling his colleagues with his overblown oratory and the voters back home with a simple platform that promised to keep i) Negroes down and 2 ) the price of cotton up. He punctuated his Senate speeches with "pings" at a spittoon ten feet away (or. if it was not there, at the Senate carpet), often rose to his feet in the Senate in a fit of temper, hacked petulantly on the arm of his chair with a penknife if he could not get the presiding...
Ford is an appropriate successor to Bundy-young, bright, and equally adept at the conference table or the lecture platform. He is an able historian of Western Europe; his Strasbourg in Transition, 1648-1789 won the Harvard University Press faculty prize in 1958. Ford has also been active on several key Harvard committees. He served on the faculty committee on educational policy, was chairman of the 1960 faculty committee studying the Harvard admission system, and has been a trustee of Radcliffe since...