Word: platforms
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...University of Berlin, Heidelberg, Oxford. To pay his way, he worked not only as a drayman but as a teacher of philosophy, a lecturer, for one summer as a Methodist minister. His itch for politics took effect one day in 1916 when he substituted for his father on the platform at a Republican rally, made a hit as a boy orator. Elected to the House by his lead-mining district in 1928, he made an unsuccessful try for the Republican Senatorial nomination in 1932, got back into Congress in 1934. He was Missouri's only Republican in the last...
...North, an editor of "The New Masses," who last night spoke on the same platform as Granville Hicks and Archibald MacLeish in an effort to raise money for the magazine, mentioned having seen several Harvard men fighting in Spain while he was in that country as correspondent for "The Daily Worker...
...plan, permitting unlimited crop production and assuring producers a profit on that part of their crop consumed in the U.S., the balance to be sold abroad at world prices. At Fort Worth Henry Wallace told cotton farmers that domestic allotment would be a "road to disaster." Bristling on the platform was Texas' Commissioner of Agriculture J.E. McDonald, a champion of domestic allotment. As soon as the Secretary left town, Commissioner McDonald announced he would organize Statewide opposition to AAA and all its works. Sniffed Mr. McDonald: "The officials of his [Wallace's] organization are merely holding their...
...Nominated by petition to run as an independent for Governor of Nebraska was the skull-capped oldster who has held that office thrice: Charles Wayland Bryan, 71, brother of the late William Jennings Bryan. One of his platform planks: the Townsend Plan...
...School comedian started the evening going when he stepped to the platform and began to complain about his room in Hastings Hall. "I live at 51 Hastings," he said, "a room with adjoining towel. It's so small I have to go outside to change my mind, and, you know, we're so cramped that we've taught the dog to wag his tail up and down...