Word: platforms
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Annapolis, Franklin Roosevelt addressed the Naval Academy's graduating class, told another slumber story: How as Assistant Secretary of the Navy at a graduation during the War, he fell asleep on the platform...
...whether the third party would split the liberal movement, La Follette declared that the liberals would split of themselves unless united behind a platform embodying their fundamental aims. If the Democrats or Republicans offer such platforms, the National Progressives would withdraw. There is no indication of such political reversal, however...
...Governor of South Carolina I have backed the reforms and policies of President Roosevelt 100%. In South Carolina . . . the policies of the New Deal . . . have lost none of their popularity. My campaign for the Senate will be based on a record of constant, unshakable loyalty to the Democratic platform and the head of our party, President Roosevelt...
...constituents: "He comes to us like the Greeks of old. . . ." He was opposed for renomination last week by onetime State Senator Henry L. Hess, who received oblique White House endorsement through letters from Secretary Ickes and Nebraska's George W. Norris. Governor Martin and his sturdy Law & Order platform were edged out, 57,727 to 50,905. Uncertain whether the President or labor had given him the harder boot, Old Iron Pants growled: "The results have in no way changed my convictions...
When the citizens of Knoxville. Tenn., tired of the city manager form of government, City Manager Walter Mynatt ran for mayor. He had a simple platform: Bring TVA to Knoxville, and was elected. Since then he has been preoccupied with two things besides running the city: higgling with National Power & Light Co. over a reasonable price for its Knoxville properties, and trying to persuade Knoxville's citizens to return to the city manager form of government...