Word: platforms
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...doubt you have heard of me and my great work in the cause of temperance. For several years I have been travelling about the country on the lecture platform. You may even be familiar with some of my better known talks, such as "Down With Drink," "Rum and Rebellion," and "Taking the B Out of Booze...
...three years I have had as my constant companion a faithful and pious friend, one Oscar Optimesque, who used to sit on the platform while I pointed him out as an example of the ravages of alcohol. Unfortunately, during the past summer, poor Oscar passed to his doom. I wonder if you could help me find some Harvard student to accompany me on my spring tour to replace poor Oscar, as I have heard on good information that Harvard students are possessed with the devil of drink. Hopefully yours, Rev. Jonah M. Wilde...
Amid an uproar of dispute on parliamentary procedure, and a bitter battle over the issues, the Harvard Student Union finally recorded a favorable 5636 vote on the first platform of the Vassar program providing for active measures against aggressor nations...
...start of the meeting. Paul Olum was elected treasurer of the H. S. U. on a second ballot. The minute the floor was thrown open to debate on the first point of the Vasear platform...
Because the Student Union cannot publicly oppose the peace platform of the Vassar convention, it will hold a meeting on Wednesday to determine which parts it will support and which it will ignore...