Word: platforms
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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What really picqued Leary, however, was that already opponents had started popularizing the catching slogan, "Be Wary of Leary." Being a fighting man Leary retaliated by announcing a platform, including such tid-bits...
...back-platform talk at Greenville last fortnight. Franklin Roosevelt had given the trio a last-minute "issue": whether or not a man can live in South Carolina on 50? a day. It came from a Senate speech made by Mr. Smith last year (TIME, Aug. 9, 1937). Last week Mr. Smith was angrily explaining that the President had been misinformed: his reference to life on 50? a day was "for illustration" only in discussing Wages & Hours. South Carolina's best newspapers all believed him, quoted the speech to help him prove Candidate Johnston a misinformer, and the 50? issue...
...farm legislation he brought to passage as chairman of the Senate Agriculture Committee. His chief sins against the New Deal were opposing processing taxes, the Court Plan, Wages & Hours, Housing, Anti-Lynching. Last week he eagerly promised to vote with Franklin Roosevelt whenever he thought him right. His personal platform (the same for 30 years): "States rights, white supremacy, tariff for revenue only...
Cherubic, 61-year-old Nominee Gannett, who publishes a string of 19 wholesome family newspapers, mostly in upstate New York, promptly accepted: ''No American could refuse the nomination for the Presidency." He even offered a platform: "I should reverse the Roosevelt policy and compose a constructive program to restore prosperity, bring employment to the idle, lessen the burden of taxation and encourage business and the growth of abundancy...
...katydid, never at a loss for an answer, almost invariably incensed about something, her column has pleased a national appetite for being scolded. Today, her On the Record is printed in 155 newspapers with more than 7,000,000 readers. She is in constant demand as a radio and platform speaker...