Word: platform
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Dates: during 1930-1930
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...clear that each is resolved to deprive the U. S. of any undue tariff advantage. The recent budget, brought in by Mr. King's Finance Minister, the Rt. Hon. Charles Avery ("Charlie") Dunning (TIME, May 12). wobbled as far from traditional free trade as did the Al Smith- Democratic platform...
...when he declared: "Is it fair, is it sound public policy to ask the wheat farmer to leave his land idle to permit an expansion of the agricultural implement trade in foreign countries so as to enable those countries to better compete with the American wheat farmer?" On the platform beside him Chairman Legge clamped his cigar, made no answer. When his turn to speak came he explained that the Farm Board had already sunk in wheat twice the crop's proportionate share of the $500,000,000 stabilization fund. Said he: "Fellow farmers! At least I hope some...
Only the Labor press was jubilant, hailed James Ramsay MacDonald as he seemed to advance upon the platform of broad and sympathetic dealings with subject peoples which he laid down at Geneva last fall (TIME, Sept. 9, et seq.). Badly perplexed, for he has but the slenderest majority in Parliament, Mr. MacDonald said to a cheering Labor audience : "The men [Indians] with whom we wish to cooperate have had to be arrested for actions which, if they themselves had been responsible for a purely Indian government and had been faced with conditions such as those they have created recently, would...
...Leopold and Princess Astrid, to launch the S.S. Princess Josephine Charlotte, a new Channel steamer for the Dover-Ostend run. Since a champagne bottle would have been, unwieldy for her diminutive Highness, thoughtful company officials tied a bright pink ribbon from the ship's prow to the launching platform. At the appropriate moment Princess Josephine Charlotte toddled to the edge of the platform, snipped the ribbon with a tiny pair of gold-plated scissors. The steamer slid majestically into the water...
Cheering was loudest when Founder Paul Percy Harris, 62-year-old Chicago attorney, made his first appearance in 15 years at an international convention. Ill, helped to the speaker's platform by his wife and friends, Founder Harris spoke briefly: "My doctors say I must speak no more than a brief sentence. How could I, in a brief sentence, say what is swelling in my heart? . . . I'll say merely . . . God bless...