Word: platform
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Dates: during 1950-1950
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...house wondering what to do next. Also wondering were at least 13 other Spanish-Americans who ran against "Anglo" candidates and lost. For the first time in years, New Mexico's Democratic ticket would be virtually Anglo. Heading the list: for governor, a run-of-the-platform politician named John E. Miles...
...Hartford, Conn., the Democratic State Central Committee appointed Novelist John (The Wall) Mersey to help draft a party platform on which Governor Chester Bowles will run for a second term this fall...
...want a doctrine or institution which does not deny you equality, economic emancipation, etc., there is no better platform than Buddhism and pursuance of the enlightened path of the Buddha...
...building the platform for Commencement exercises in front of Memorial Hall are wondering what visiting dignitaries they're putting the boards together...
Tolling the Dead. An hour passed before the gasoline finally burned itself out. In the silence which followed, firemen and policemen advanced on the blackened streetcar, hacked its doors open. Then, faces set, they began carrying out blackened bodies which were stacked like cordwood on the rear platform. A crowd of 15,000 which watched from behind fire lines began counting aloud, as each corpse was removed. Thirty-three had died; 40 had been injured. It was the worst city traffic accident in U.S. history...