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Word: platformate (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1960-1969
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...past CCA presidents have asked that the association support DeGuglielmo's administration in the platform for next fall's municipal election. Such a statement would logically lead to the CCA's endorsement of Mrs. Wheeler and Councillor Coates alone; Crane and Mahoney would find it difficult to stand on a platform that praised a man they have damned for the past 14 months...

Author: By Robert J. Samuelson, | Title: CCA Confusion | 4/13/1967 | See Source »

Crane backers and more cautious directors have proposed a variety of other alternatives: endorsing no one for the Council and concentrating on the School Committee election; endorsing all the incumbents but not taking a platform position on the manager and avoiding all joint campaign appearances of the councillors: modifying endorsement procedures and qualifying the endorsements...

Author: By Robert J. Samuelson, | Title: CCA Confusion | 4/13/1967 | See Source »

...many respects, Edmund "Pat" Brown fits the comic strip caricature of a politician. Heavy-set and florid, he talks in superlatives and looks at ease on a campaign platform. Genial most of the time, he blusters and pounds his fist if someone maligns Lyndon Johnson or another Democrat. He knows California as few other people do: probably no one else could be so effusive about the redwoods or the Los Angeles freeway system; probably no one else can name the tiny settlements that dot Highway 395 as it climbs from Barstow to Bishop...

Author: By Linda G. Mcveigh, | Title: Pat Brown | 4/12/1967 | See Source »

...lighting was straight, and the set (a platform surrounded by three sides of seats) was adequate. I'd praise both more if I could praise the rest...

Author: By Joel Demott, | Title: A Taste of Honey | 4/1/1967 | See Source »

...stable anti-Communist regime. However, the Argentine military has a remarkably flexible definition of stable government. The military will hand over the government to the civilians again only when they are convinced that the workers are finished with their revolutionary ideology -- only when the workers have a firm platform which satisfies the industrialists and the petit bourgeois, and which pays off the military...

Author: By Stephen D. Lerner, | Title: Jose Luis Romero: Argentina Today | 3/31/1967 | See Source »

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