Word: platformate
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...headline on this story (and to a much smaller degree the story itself) describes Professor Aron as critical of De Gaulle and the FLN. This headline might lead some of your readers to suppose that Professor Aron used a Harvard platform to press the personal political views which he has put forth in France as a French citizen. In fact he did nothing of the sort; on the contrary he gave particular attention to the task of presenting clearly the attitudes of Frenchmen and Algerians with whom he himself does not agree...
...leadership positions with Senators from the big industrial states, on the reasoning that it was these states that gave Kennedy his victory. "We must not," said he, "approve the designation [to key committee positions] of members who have failed to support the national ticket or those who oppose the platform pledges in the area in which the committee has jurisdiction...
...Manhattan. Connecticut Democrat Tom Dodd issued his own statement of principle: he was not about to go "whole hog'' on the Democratic platform, "merely because it was adopted by our party convention . . . Any attempt of a party convention to dictate to a President or a Congress concerning constitutional responsibilities cannot be countenanced...
...usual, the pro-Communist People's Party campaigned on a "Yankee Go Home" platform, demanding immediate, unconditional reunification with the "Japanese homeland." But this time the People's Party was deprived of a vital talking point by the U.S. military government's generously increased compensation to farmers whose fields had been gobbled up by Air Force runways and Army housing. Ranged against the People's Party was the moderate, pro-U.S. Liberal-Democratic Party headed by scholarly Seisaku Ota, 56, current chief executive of the local government. The Liberal Democrats, too, plumped for reunification with...
Since the nomination for Vice-President, however, there has been a striking change in the demeanor of Mr. Johnson. First there was his support of the Democratic platform, which earned him the hatred of his Texas constituents, and almost lost Kennedy the Texas electoral votes. Four days before the election, he was greeted in Dallas by an angry mob, with signs reading "I dreamed I went to Washington in my turncoat...