Word: platforms
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...year term, he is at present abnormally sensitive about his age, offers to beat any of his critics at tennis. His present status in Roosevelt strategy is precarious, more that of an old pensioner than a valuable lieutenant. When the President finally got around to endorsing him from the platform of his special train in California last month, Senator McAdoo, at his side, mopped his brow with obvious relief...
...feudalism dressed up in Democratic clothes." He saved his full thunder-blast for that afternoon at Barnesville, Ga., where he was to throw the switch on a new REA project. Barnesville's population of 3,000 swelled to 30,000 to hear him. On the speakers' platform at his side were Senator George and Candidate Camp. When Franklin Roosevelt began to speak, all present recognized a significant emphasis and deliberateness in his delivery. Before he finished, people realized they had heard a resounding declaration...
...times a day, mostly keeps his coat on, preserves his dignity, discusses his record (99% perfect) as a Roosevelt supporter, reiterates Franklin Roosevelt's appeal for his return. His meetings open with "America." His introducers refer to him as "the next President of the United States." From the platform, Almighty God is frequently invoked in his behalf. A typical Barkley exhortation...
Best Guarantee. Next morning, on the station platform, the Lebruns said good-by to their guests in the name of France. Then the royal train, followed by the Presidential train, steamed off to what was called the "Australian soil" of the cemetery at Villers-Bretonneux, where 2,500 Australian soldiers lie buried. In dedicating a handsome new Australian Memorial, the King showed himself in better voice than at any time since he took the Throne, the nervous tone of his halting speech having almost vanished, and President Lebrun fervently responded, "It moves me to salute, Your Majesty, your affirmation that...
...left her comfortable, stuffy, middle-class home at 17; studied at Brussels, Berlin, Rome; joined the Italian Socialist Party; edited a women's paper. As a speaker she had been cheered by radicals and chased by reactionaries until she lost all self-consciousness on the platform. But during her speech at Lausanne, she was distracted by the most wretched-looking human being who had ever appeared in her audiences-an agitated, unkempt, timid man with bitter eyes and a large jaw, who twisted his hat nervously. Angelica was so disturbed that after the meeting she spoke...