Word: platformate
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...floor manager for Pennsylvania Gov. William W. Scranton's attempt to gain the presidential nomination last July. During the Convention he issued statements as strong as Scranton's against the conservative nominee-to-be, and he led the fight to secure liberal amendments to the G.O.P platform...
...President shared the platform with Boston's Mayor John F. Collins, Gov. Peabody, the state's Democratic Congressional delegation, and the local candidates his trip was designed to strengthen...
...ridden Sen. Edward M. Kennedy was represented by his wife, John. When Johnson mounted the platform, he walked straight to Mrs. Kennedy, kissed her on the cheek and grinned as she blushed and the crowd reared with delight...
...President was hoarse and apparently tired at first, but he grow relaxed and expensive as he spoke. After his speech he leaned over the platform and shook perhaps 154 hands in about two minutes...
Howe noted that the 1876 platform of the Prohibitionist party supported the use of the Bible in schools and called for governmental "protection of purity," while the 1964 Republican platform advocates a school prayer amendment to the Constitution and calls for legislation to bar obscenity from the mails...