Word: platforms
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Excerpts from the standard rear-platform speech which the President made with variations at minor stops throughout the West...
...Indiana's National Democratic Committeeman. Sonorously Mr. McHale intoned: "Paul V. McNutt has never failed his community, his State or his country. With him as the nominee for President of the United States our party can proceed with full consciousness that every promise will be kept, that each platform declaration will be respected and that the best interests of the people will be served. Therefore, we, the Democratic Party of Indiana, give Paul V. McNutt to our party and to the nation...
...should make a "businessman's campaign" for Governor. He claims that "54,499" people soon wrote in urging him to run. So, in a sound truck with a speaker's stand on top, he set out through the State-with no manager, no party machine, no platform, no headquarters except his home or his hotel room, no knowledge of any political rules except to entertain the crowds, to promise $30 per month to every Texan 65 or over, to kid "professional politicians...
...Administration leader in the Senate is "Dear Alben" to the President. Grinning bumptiously, the young Governor plopped himself down between the President and Mr. Barkley in the official automobile. At the Latonia racetrack in Covington, before the speechmaking began, "Happy" Chandler got to the front of the platform for a lot of wisecracking and folksy gesturing until suppressed by Secretary Marvin Mclntyre. When the President's turn came, he frankly listed the hundreds of millions of dollars poured into Kentucky by the New Deal, flatly said: "I have no doubt that Governor Chandler would make a good Senator from...
Conversation stopped. He strode to the platform. "Peace," he said. "Peace," said the 500.* Dimpled, businesslike Mr. Schafer, M.M., was dedicating Idle Hour as a sort of spiritual sanatorium for the members of one of the most elusive cults in the U. S.-The Royal Fraternity of Master Metaphysicians. It will be called Peace Haven. Mr. Schafer acquired it some months ago for $350,000, raised by Love Gifts from his disciples. "Truth Students never lack anything," he says. It will be used as a retreat "for those Students who desire Metaphysical assistance or loving care. . . ." One of the wings...