Word: platforms
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Dates: during 1910-1919
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...League to Enforce Peace has a platform consisting of four articles. These provide, briefly: (1) for the settlement of justiciable questions by a judicial tribunal, (2) for the submission of other questions to a council of conciliation, (3) for joint use by the signatory powers of both economic and military forces against any member of the League that goes to war without first submitting its cause to the Judicial tribunal, or the council of conciliation, and (4) for conferences for the formulation and codification of international...
...facts he has collected. The latter listen without enthusiasm and dully set down in notes what they think they hear. In those cases where the lecturer, through his personality or power of popularizing, arouses unusual interest, a theatrical burst of applause betrays the peculiar attitude engendered by the platform lecture...
...Living Room of the Union was crowded by about 700 members Saturday afternoon who watched each play of the Harvard-Princeton football contest, from the CRIMSON's direct wire from the Palmer Stadium. A blackboard gridiron was set up on the platform so that each play could be shown. At intervals the Union orchestra played football songs and popular music, and the enthusiasm in the Living Room was almost as great as the enthusiasm of the eye witnesses...
...briefly" he said, "Dana's position was that slavery was so great an evil that it could not be tolerated in territories where it did not exist, but that under the constitution we could not interfere with it in the states where it was already established. This was the platform on which the Republican party was founded and upon which it made the contests in 1856 which resulted in the defeat of Fremont, and, in 1860, when its victory made Abraham Lincoln president. In 1848, however, there were few who were ready to accept this doctrine. Mr. Dana...
...platform of such a party would consist of six principles: nationality, universal free trade, universal citizenship, an international supreme court, an international police force, and disarmament...