Word: platforms
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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This posed a pretty problem for campaigning Democratic Governor Lehman. With Racket Buster Dewey, his Republican opponent, grinning down from an anticorruption platform, Mr. Lehman had to step fast. He also had to step delicately, because although he had twice before superseded troublesome Democrat Geoghan with special prosecutors, he refused to remove him from office at the request of a special grand jury two years ago. Last week, after hearing both Mr. Geoghan and Mr. Herlands present their cases, Governor Lehman announced that Mr. Geoghan would be superseded again, delayed naming a special prosecutor to investigate Mr. Geoghan and other...
...independence of his native Poland, dedicated his every effort to this cause. His acquaintance with nearly all the powerful and famous figures of the world made him Poland's best ambassador. At War's end Poland was free, and Paderewski virtually retired from the concert platform to become its first Premier...
...local politician who had rounded up the Townsend Plan vote. "Buyer" was the Republican candidate for Governor, blue-blooded Leverett Saltonstall. "Seller" was William H. McMasters, 64, of Cambridge, who looks something like old Dr. Francis E. Townsend. Published "price": a promise in Mr. Saltonstall's platform to make "an earnest effort to have this bill [Townsend General Welfare Act*] brought before Congress at the earliest possible moment." Though the Townsend Plan is officially cold-shouldered by the Administration...
...voices of politicians grew loud in the land, crowding even swing off the air, radio listeners last week did not hear two opponents debating (but not broadcasting) with poise and dignity from one platform in Marietta, Ohio. Republican Robert Alphonso Taft and Democrat Robert Johns Bulkley had agreed, while fighting for the latter's Senate seat, to hold at least six debates in the good old Lincoln-Douglas tradition...
...problems of Unemployment and Depression. Debater Taft asked voters, did they want an independent or a dominated Congress?, demanded protective tariffs on pottery, glassware, oil. Debater Bulkley indignantly denied that he was a Roosevelt rubber stamp, called Candidate Taft a belated New Dealer and, so far as his platform went, a copycat. Afterwards they shook hands. Next debate: at Dayton this week, Mr. Bulkley to frame the question...