Word: platforms
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...which convinced many an observer, expert at noting recent trends & trivia of politics, that if the Democratic Party was still sponsoring the New Deal in 1940, Franklin Roosevelt was their man. Who but he had the personality to be elected on a spending-lending platform? Harry Hopkins? Harold Ickes? Bob Jackson? Henry Wallace? Nobody else but Franklin Roosevelt, reasoned the observers...
...passed through a hamlet, crowds that gathered to see the shuttered cars flash by waved their flags, but kept silent lest they disturb King George and Queen Elizabeth's sleep. At White River, "coldest spot in Ontario," the train stopped to service the locomotive. On the snow-sprinkled platform Indians, school children, townspeople hoping against hope that they might glimpse their sovereigns, were overjoyed when Queen Elizabeth, motioning the King to follow, stepped from the train. Flustered aides rushed to the welcoming committee, demanded that the mayor appear to greet Their Majesties. White River has no mayor...
...bedrooms connected by a sliding, panel, gold-plated telephones, a lounge car, offices and bedrooms for the staff and party. At every whistle-stop the populace waved frantically, but the only full stop was at Three Rivers, where the King and Queen walked over the tracks on a wooden platform to greet 50,000 appreciative gazers, twice the town's population...
Last week Max Hecksher and his wife arrived in Milwaukee. On the way, they had found a job in London for 17-year-old Helmut. Herr Hecksher, unbroken at 60, had just $2 in his pocket when at last he saw Rose's beaming face upon the station platform. Said he, safe in a furnished room which Rose provided...
...Cabinet members on the workings of their departments, the voice of the President spoke over 150 local U. S. radio stations, and it left no doubt as to what the President's favorite publicity medium is. From one of the sturdiest planks in George Washington's parting platform ("In proportion as the structure of a government gives force to public opinion, it is essential that public opinion be enlightened") the President dived overboard with his biggest splash for radio. Said...