Word: platform
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Dates: during 1950-1950
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When she had finished, a Negro woman walked to the platform to hand Mrs. Waring a small bouquet of roses wrapped in tissue paper, was fondly hugged in return. The next day's brickbats were wrapped in white rage. "Beneath comment," snorted Dixiecrat Governor J. Strom Thurmond. On the floor of the state legislature, Representative Joe Wise, a 23-year-old Air Forces veteran, added: "We need no words such as hers from a damyankee...
...President did not intend to teach the course on a permanent basis when he began it, Owen explained. He intended to relinquish the lecture platform when the course "got on its feet," Owen said...
Flipper-Flapping. Harry Truman spoke more soberly. He asked the assembled Democrats to remember the party platform and to help him carry it through. Then he recalled that Princeton University was engaged in publishing the complete works of Thomas Jefferson; he hoped that someone would also publish all the writings of Jackson, Lincoln, Woodrow Wilson and Franklin Roosevelt...
...Columbia College found nothing wrong about him. A onetime Rhinebeck, N.Y. high-school principal, he first went to Columbia in 1917, quickly rose to professor of history. In class he had his own brand of brilliance. Lumbering slowly back & forth across his platform, arms folded across his chest, he had a way of making history come alive without resorting to flashy dramatics. Students flocked to hear him and seven times voted him their most popular prof essor. In 1943, when Columbia College needed a new dean, President Nicholas Murray Butler picked Carman...
...Krishnamurti days, Mrs. Besant was converted to socialism by Bernard Shaw. A warm friendship on the lecture platform and over piano duets led to talk of marriage, but since Mrs. Besant was still legally married, she suggested instead a detailed, written contract of cohabitation, which Shaw rejected with "Good God! This is worse than all the vows of all the churches on earth. I had rather be legally married to you ten times over...