Word: standed
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...healthy thing for the American public to wish to know where its Presidential candidates stand on national issues, even though the wish is not always gratified. Presidential possibilities seldom talk for publication after they have become possibilities. In Smith's case, however, this much is true: this man has been governor of the most populous State in the Union for eight of the last ten years. And no one can fill that office for the better part of a decade without encountering at least a few issues which are national as well as local...
Prohibition Stand Mystery...
...Farm legislation. Smith has given no indication of his stand. Farm relief is a problem with which he has had little personal experience. He is not at home in the Corn Belt...
...result of this dodging is the dovetailing together of candidates and issues, instead of a head-on collision between the opposing factions. The parties stand in a peculiar position. If they desire to take a definite stand, they must choose from the men who have followed the method of issue inventing. A really complete platform would require half a dozen presidential nominees of this lik for its support. It looks as if the silent man will carry the convention: the old game of hushing up the real questions will be played again, and the people will be allowed to choose...
...Post. A training-table for the debating team has a certain piquant novelty: it is fraught with delightful possibilities for the time when the conservative orators of the present pass from Paine Hall, and the Freshmen and sub-Freshmen of today, brought up forensically under the new regime, stand in their places...