Word: platform
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: during 1930-1939
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
...advance; since they are conferred in person and very rarely "in absentia,'" the recipient is cautioned to regard the news of the honor about to fall upon him as confidential. It is not yet known to whom will fall the added distinction of receiving their degrees on the same platform with the President. In his case the publicity which attends his movements made the advance announcement necessary...
Most of last week President Roosevelt spent away from his desk, the White House and Washington. His travels first took him to Gettysburg where he drove through cheering crowds to the battlefield. As the President ascended the platform there he was greeted by a white-haired lady of 85. Mrs. M. O. Smith, who as a girl, 71 years before, had stood on a similar platform, had sung a song to a great gathering, had heard Abraham Lincoln begin: "Fourscore and seven years ago our fathers. . . " Last week Mrs. Smith did not sing. President Roosevelt, addressing a crowd...
...elected to Congress on an anti-corporation farming platform, is today one of the noisiest Republican hecklers in the House. He shouted loudly over the tax bill and tried to block it by getting a sales tax included. He shouted loudly over Dr. Wirt and the iniquities of the Brain Trust. Last week he got into an argument with Speaker Rainey over a question of procedure and tied up business in the House for an hour and a quarter until he was finally and decisively voted down. Several Democrats saluted him with Indian war-whoops, as a subtle reminder that...
...went with the 78 diplomas distributed among the graduates of the first ten years. Honorary Doctor of Music degrees, the Curtis's first, went to Hofmann's friend Leopold Godowsky and to Marcella Sembrich. The Curtis's plump, frizzy-haired little vocal professor sat on the platform and beamed when Director Hofmann reminded the audience that she was an accomplished pianist and violinist before she became the Metropolitan Opera's prize coloratura. The day Mrs. Bok proudly distributed diplomas her son Curtis was elected president of the Philadelphia Orchestra Association, successor to the late Alexander...
Last week a huge-framed, six-foot scholar marched up to the platform of Manhattan's General Theological Seminary to receive the degree of Master of Sacred Theology. He was Edward Rochie Hardy Jr., 26. and the degree was the fifth for New York City's most famed prodigy...