Word: platt
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...York City's Harlem, white Promoter-Preacher-Spiritualist Don Platt used an old candy store for a church and got three Negroes robed in white cotton over their street clothes to go into a doze on three cots set up before an improvised altar. He called it a "trance marathon." invited newshawks to ask the subjects what they saw in the spirit world. Subject John Epps reported that "George Washington says the New Deal is all right except for so much taxin' of the people. He's in favor of changin' the Constitution in favor...
...Sure they eat," said Promoter Platt...
...PLATT HINMAN...
...ever to enter the U. S. Senate. When he died in 1915 he left a fortune of over $30,000,000 largely made out of banking, sugar, rubber, public utilities, tractions. But Nelson Aldrich was also one of the most potent men ever to enter the Senate. With Platt of Connecticut, Spooner of Wisconsin and Allison of Iowa, he practically ran the country from 1897 to 1905 when the quartet broke publicly with Roosevelt I. In 1909, as chairman of the Senate Finance Committee, he was co-author of the notorious Payne-Aldrich Tariff Act which cost the Republicans...
...Pierce Baker. Those students who supplied the first $800 for the 47 Workshop were Harvard and Radcliffe disciples of Professor Baker who had been thrilled by his magnificent courses in play writing. The Workshop prepared such well-known figures as Philip Barry, John Mason Brown, Edward P. Goodnow, Livingston Platt, and Robert Edmund Jones. Professor Baker was deeply rooted at Harvard, and he wanted to remain where he started his beloved Workshop, the first of its kind in the country. But Yale University, with a special theatre, lured him away. While nearly every college in America now has a Baker...