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...time bomb. During the 1948 race Lott was referring to, Thurmond had broken with the Democratic Party over President Truman's expansion of civil rights for black Americans. Thurmond ran for President as the nominee of the States' Rights Party, also known as the Dixiecrats. Its platform was built almost entirely around a pledge to uphold "the segregation of the races and the integrity of each race." Thurmond won 39 electoral votes on his vow that "all the laws of Washington and all the bayonets of the Army cannot force the Negro into our homes, our schools, our churches...
...compelling; and so it is that I make my endorsement of that Gentle Giant, and current Governor of the Great Palmetto State (South Carolina)—Mr. J. Strom Thurmond. Running on the strong backs of men of Industry and a States’ Rights platform, Governor Thurmond is uniquely qualified to lead the Nation through “all these problems” it faces...
Part of Detroit's reluctance stems from years of neglect of the car market. Most of Detroit's cars rest on dated front-wheel-drive platforms (the car's foundation), which can't be easily re-engineered into sports cars. To make its Crossfire, Chrysler modified a platform that its sister brand, Mercedes-Benz, is phasing out. Foreign automakers have rolled out profitable models partly because they spent decades investing in platforms that can flex: Audi's TT sits on a modified Golf platform; BMW's Z4 started out with a 3-Series...
...response to the letter would have been the same, but whether The Crimson would have published such a piece at all. The problem is that homophobia—of which Pappin’s letter is a particularly insidious example—is not being put on the same platform as racism, anti-Semitism or other equally disgusting forms of hate; to diminish it thus is both ignorant and incredibly dangerous, as the secret court of 1920 showed us in the first place...
Chopra, chair of the council’s Student Affairs Committee, and Stannard-Friel, co-chair of the Campus Life Committee, ran on a platform calling for student representation on the Administrative Board, more funds for social events and student input in curricular reform. They will take office...