Word: platform
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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When, at 11 o'clock this morning, George Lyman Kittredge '82, Gurney professor of English Literature, "Kitty" to many Harvard generations, picks up his books and papers from the platform desk in Harvard 6, and, lecturing all the while to his English 22 class, walks slowly down the aisle, it will mark the end of an era in American scholarship...
Prop For Eden. At this point the British Government realized that something must be done to restore the prestige of Anthony Eden and take a little cockiness out of Baron Aloisi. Slow-moving Stanley Baldwin hoisted himself on a lecture platform in Worcester to defend Britain's temporizing on sanctions, and his Foreign Secretary...
...observation platform Mayor Samuel Davis Wilson spoke his good wishes into a microphone which gave him a nationwide audience. Without topcoat or hat but wearing white gloves was fair-haired Leopold Stokowski, exulting not only over the tour to come but because there is a prospect of a European trip next season. Cameras clicked rapidly while Frances A. Wister of the Orchestra Board presented Conductor Stokowski with a fox-terrier pup named Nipper. The New York Philharmonic players sent money to buy each of the travelers a beer. Led by Trumpeter Saul Caston, the Orchestra's brasses blew...
...legislative aid to farmers. Some European states have made alcohol mixtures mandatory. In the U. S. alcoholic gasoline is a subject of controversy among fuel chemists, their views depending on whether their allegiance is to farm or refinery. Completely contradictory statements on alcohol blends were uttered from the same platform last week by Leo Martin Christensen of the Farm Chemurgic Council and Dr. Gustav Egloff of Universal Oil Products...
...dearly loves to make a campaign speech is the eternal Mayor of Lyons, roly-poly Radical-Socialist Edouard Herriot. In 1932 M. Herriot was ousted as Premier for insisting that France should pay something on her War debt to the U. S. Last week on a platform in Lyons he did his best to rub his opponents' noses with the fact that by refusing to make even a token payment, France had lost an ally of incalculable value...