Word: platform
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Dates: during 1950-1950
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...throat, the News made a drastic change: for the first time in its 41-year history, it hired a white man as its managing editor. The News's new boss: New York-born Stanley Ross, 36, onetime Latin American stringer for A.P. and the New York Times, occasional platform lecturer. He also had an unsuccessful career as a "doctor" to ailing newspapers from Lake Charles, La. to Wilmington, Del. before he saw the Amsterdam News's ad in Editor & Publisher...
...piano was sitting on the squat platform where Lowell's high table usually goes; Carmichael examined the instrument, and lifted off the front. Then he paused to tell the story of the astigmatic golfer. The house laughed, and Dr. Perkins blushed slightly, but laughed too. He hit four tentative chords, a phone started ringing outside the dining room door, and Carmichael drummed on the piano with his left hand. "Answer the phone," he said, in rhythm...
...Last week, the government proceeded to exercise that right to the full. Scotland Yard men hurried to Britain's ports and airfields to turn back scores of travelers on their way to Sheffield, busy Yorkshire steel city, to attend the Russian-inspired Second World Peace Congress, a propaganda platform for international Communism...
...Strindberg-social conscience and psychological drama. This dramatic realism swept the charming Victorian puppets off the stage and replaced them with disagreeable people; it produced excellent playwrights and at least one genius-Shaw. For the paper cutouts of Victorianism it substituted newspaper cutouts, transformed the stage into a lecture platform and the playwright into an amateur reporter, reformer and psychiatrist. The few English-speaking playwrights who attempted metrical dramas usually produced verse as feeble as Maxwell Anderson's. They were afraid of poetry. Fry goes after the lady as boldly as if his name were Shakespeare or Marlowe...
Another important section of the 1948 Democratic platform will not be fulfilled now; the Taft-Hartley Act will still be law in 1952. Organized Labor failed in its biggest campaign; it could not defeat Robert A. Taft, even with comic books and heavy spending. And the men in party national committees will not forget that Labor could not deliver the vote, that it, in fact, missed by 430,000. Because of the Taft-Ferguson result, Labor may lose some of the strength it has had in making party policies...