Word: platform
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Dates: during 1930-1930
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...Brown had weasled on this issue with a declaration for a referendum and Messrs. Grundy and Davis had mumbled the old formula about "law enforcement." The Association Against the Prohibition Amendment supported Thomas Wharton Phillips Jr. for Governor and Francis Hermann Bohlen for Senator on a Dry-law repeal platform...
...believed one was enough, stuck to his conviction. His party politicians were glad of his decision, hoped their next man would not prove so uncompromising against the spoils system. Back in Ohio, Hayes enlarged his house, saw his friends, read many a book, served as chairman on many a platform. When Death came to him in 1893, he had been pallbearer for most of his friends. The Author. Hamilton James Ecken rode, 49, unmarried, onetime (1914-16) professor of economics at the University of Richmond, has been State Historian of Virginia since 1927. Rutherford B. Hayes is the first...
Instantly the Commissioner leaped into angry action. He jumped up on the platform beside the two culprits and, his voice shrilling with indignation and reproach, exclaimed: ". . . this morning you have two traitors [indicating Opperman and Foran] before you, two contemptible and disloyal men, men I can't find words strong enough to denounce! Judas betrayed for 30 pieces of silver! They are worse than Judas! They not only betrayed their trust but tried to put the blame on another member of the department...
Massachusetts. To one of the most important Protestant Episcopal dioceses, that of Massachusetts, Henry Knox Sherrill, 39, was elected ninth bishop last week. Escorting him to a platform for formal notification was his predecessor once removed,* Dr. William Lawrence, 80 this month, who resigned the office and title of Bishop of Massachusetts in 1926 after 33 years service. Bishop-elect Sherrill is a plumpish married man. The realism of 18-months War service at Bordeaux, as chaplain of the base hospital on its outskirts, underlies a polish acquired at Hotchkiss School, Yale, the Episcopal Theological School at Cambridge...
...deliberate that in a planetarium the universe is speeded up as much as 4,000,000 times its normal rate to make star changes apparent. Last week Professor Philip Fox, who resigned from the staff of Northwestern Observatory to take charge of the new planetarium, stood on his platform in the darkened room manipulating levers and buttons, making his stars perform like trained seals. With a flashlight beam, he singled out celestial bodies in the ceiling, told their names. Once the preliminaries were over and Teacher Fox had his 2,700 stars - all those visible from Chicago's side...