Word: platformate
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...been getting up earlier," allowed Governor Richard Hughes, "to get my worrying done." He could have stayed in bed. Re-elected last year on a "progress" platform that pledged a state income tax to improve sadly in adequate schools, hospitals, highways and welfare programs, Democrat Hughes was confident that the state's first Democratic legislature in half a century would adopt the tax he needed...
Above all, the publishers are proud of putting out newspapers in the nation's largest city and reluctant to see them disappear. They want to hang on to their personal platform in New York. One story has it that William Randolph Hearst Jr. has been holding up negotiations by demanding that the new paper run his personal column. "Oddly enough," says a top executive involved in the negotiations, "the biggest obstacle to merger is the personalities and pride of the very top men. It's a question of who wants to give...
...authorship of the plan portends harmony. Its sponsors are Michigan's Governor George Romney, a probable candidate for the presidential nomination, and Wisconsin's Representative Melvin Laird who as platform-committee chairman in 1964 tried to bring everybody together but drew fire from both sides. They propose that the several hundred participants in the pre-convention-most of them party leaders who would also be delegates to the regular convention the next year-first choose a drafting committee and then act on the committee's platform...
...most damaging drumfire of criticism, day after day, came from a police department that over the years had become a powerful and sacrosanct kingdom unto itself. As part of his platform to save the city from despair and dissension, Lindsay had pledged to create a civilian review board to investigate complaints of police brutality. The incumbent commissioner and the department as a whole objected violently to such "interference...
Serjeant Musgrave's Dance. Give some playwrights a stage and they turn it into a combination lecture platform and thundering pulpit. Scarcely bothering to dramatize their themes, they simply harangue the playgoer as if he were a retarded child or a calloused sinner...