Word: platforms
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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After 40 hours, Mr. Coolidge left his hotel suite, descended to the station. Walking on the platform to his noon train, he confided: "Well ... I just came down ... to see a few publishers and a few friends. I have been trying to get back to private life and you fellows [newsgatherers] will have to help...
...this setting poets and critics will be brought to speak to gatherings of Harvard undergraduates. No more than 40 or 50 students will be expected at a time in order that the donor's wishes for small and friendly conversations, rather than platform speeches, may be carried out. Only undergraduates will be present at these talks...
...preaches, he prays, he saves, and in the midst of thousands recruited from all levels, he sends forth his message of light. His life reads like fiction, for he has adventured upon every field aside from the platform. Gipsy Smith, "the world's best known evangelist" packs the Boston Garden, packs the Tremont Temple...
...platform of the Liberal Party is, in short, to promise Englishmen whatever they want, and to blame the Conservatives for unemployment, failure to meet the Coolidge naval limitations proposals, and inability to wriggle out of paying what the Empire owes the U. S. Throughout his speech Mr. Lloyd George never once suggested that he might win a partial victory-i. e., enough seats to put him at the head of a coalition Cabinet-'but thundered and boasted that the triumph of Liberalism would be sweeping and complete. Since there are today a mere 40 Liberals among the 615 members...
This bizarre half-truth was shrieked in Manhattan, last week, from the platform of a hall into which had jammed 5,000 men, women and children, all members or hangers-on of the Workers' (Communist) Party. This group of U. S. Reds looks for leadership to the dictator of Soviet Russia, silent, ruthless Josef Stalin; and consequently hates and fears famed Leon Trotsky, whom Stalin has booted out of Russia despite the fact that Trotsky was one of the first and greatest leaders of the Soviet Revolution, the friend of Lenin and the creator of the Soviet army...