Word: platform
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Dates: during 1950-1950
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People's Platform (Sun. 12:30 p.m., CBS). "Is American Foreign Policy Sound?" with John Foster Dulles and Marquis Childs...
Ring sat on the platform as Paul Robeson denounced the U.S.'s "wicked and shameful policy" and Gus Hall, national secretary of the Communist Party, accused the U.S. of making "undeclared shooting war against all the peoples of Asia." To the 9,000 "peace partisans," Ring cried: "For a mere screenwriter to be imprisoned for his beliefs elevates him ... to a fraternity which includes Socrates ... St. Paul . . . John Donne . . . Thomas Paine...
...that had not happened since Reconstruction days. A Negro, Alfred J. Clement Jr., was running against five-term Congressman L. Mendel Rivers in South Carolina's First District (Charleston). Clement, an official of the respected, Negro-owned North Carolina Mutual Life Insurance Co., had spoken from the same platform as white candidates, had been refused permission only once. When election day came, of course, he wouldn't have a chance. But still...
...actually giving the kind of advice which is most needed at that hour when the newly graduated are about to put their knowledge to the test in the untried world. Even if he happens to be the rather fatherly type, his task demands that he stay upon the platform and not chat with each graduate individually as might be more suited to both his temperament and the occasion...
...Rochester awarded Romulo an honorary degree at its centenary commencement. Romulo had flown 12,000 miles in four days from Manila only to have the car carrying him from the airport collide with a taxicab three blocks from the Eastman Theatre in downtown Rochester. He arrived on the commencement platform just as his degree citation was being read...