Word: platformization
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...armed leader rose and went to the platform. "You wonder what has been patched up," he exclaimed. "You might just as well remove that wonder from your minds. You showed confidence in me when you elected me President. If you haven't the same confidence now, I don't want the office." Thereupon he changed the subject and talked about corruption in the district...
...started to leave the platform Brennan came forward. They shook hands and Brennan raised his voice to the audience: "If for no other reason than that we are shaking hands, you ought to be satisfied. This is the first time I have spoken to brother Cappellini in a year. I want his administration to be a success." The delegates sat in mute astonishment. Then they began to cheer...
Magnus?everybody in Minnesota including himself calls him Magnus?won on a platform of Government control (in favor of the farmers) of railroads, coal mines, Federal Reserve Bank. He is for a cash soldier bonus, heavier income surtaxes, excess profits taxes, restriction of the power of the courts in granting injunctions against labor, better prices for farm products, no lowering of wages, no entangling alliances...
...attitude shown by these letters is by no means universal among Negroes. Some members of his own race freely condemned the pugilist Johnson for marrying a " white." It was also one of the planks in the platform of the once popular Marcus Garvey, now convicted of fraud, that Negroes should not contract mixed marriages...
Senator Couzens, Canadian by birth, a former business associate of Henry Ford, a former Mayor of Detroit on a reform platform, has enough money to be independent of "ward" politics?and has the reputation of exercising that independence. Governor Groesbeck appointed him a few months ago to succeed to the mud-beslung seat of former Senator Newberry. If Senator Couzens hopes to continue in office he must stand for re-election next year...