Word: platformate
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Nixon and the G.O.P. put heavier emphasis on the law-and-order issue than did Humphrey and the Democrats. The Democrats came out for putting into effect the radical and expensive proposals of the Kerner commission report. And if necessary, the Democratic platform says, the Government must become the "employer of last resort" of those unable to find work in private industry. The Republicans stressed fiscal responsibility and propose to combat urban problems primarily through private enterprise...
Looking to 1972. In defeat, McCarthy stuck to his guns. The traditional show of party unity was beyond him-particularly after what he had seen on Michigan Avenue-and he refused to appear on the convention platform with the winner. He would not, he said, endorse either Humphrey or Nixon. "We've forgotten the convention," he told his supporters. "We've forgotten the Vice President. We've forgotten the platform." For the next two months, he said, he would work for senatorial candidates who supported his view on the war. In the future, he would work...
...managing editor of the Boston Traveler, one of the first editors in the country to demand that his writers treat Negroes fairly in their stories. At the end of World War I he became managing editor of The Nation, used the magazine's liberal platform to rail against U.S. imperialism in Nicaragua, Haiti and the Dominican Republic, and champion recognition of Mexico's revolutionary Obregon regime...
...Literally, Place of the Skull, Lobnoye Mes to is a large masonry platform near the Cathedral of Basil the Blessed. In czarist days, it was used as a place of supplication and as the site of royal orders. The unpleasant name probably dates from the reign of Ivan the Terrible, who had his enemies executed there...
...gathered in Chicago last week, it was Columnist Max Lerner who had the kindest words to say for the Democratic National Convention. "Here in Chicago," he wrote, "you see America plain with no holds barred, no warts missing from the portrait, with everything there, including credential fights and platform debates, with Lester Maddox and Julian Bond, with hippies and yippies and the New Left, with soldiers and Secret Service and a maddening security tightness, with newsmen and photographers being clubbed by overreacting police squads, but with an unflinching resolve to show and face what America is really like...