Word: platforms
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...interviewer, as he hitched into the offices and halls of Washington's Capitol. Then he was a Georgia Congressman, bitter foe of drinking ("I haven't had a drink in 46 years")*, chief crusader for sober officials." Fortnight ago, no longer a Congressman, just a platform-lecturer on a holiday, Dryman Upshaw arrived in Manhattan. He walked into the offices of the New York Graphic and asked to speak to its publisher and his good friend, Bernarr Macfadden. Publisher Macfadden was not there, so the caller said to Editor M. H. Weyrauch: "This is my vacation...
...small town (Sudlersville, Md.) boy. "I worked on a farm," he says, "and I am glad of it. Farmer boys are stronger than city boys. When I was 12 I could cut corn all day, help in the wheat fields, swing 200-pound bags of phosphate off a platform into a wagon. We had games on the farm to test strength and grip. A fellow had to plant both feet in half a barrel of wheat and then pick up two bushels of wheat or corn and balance them on his shoulders. Another trick was to lift a 200-pound...
...hobo but I have had sufficient contacts with hobos to be surprised at the definition given by you in the footnote page 54, TIME, June 24, for blind baggage. I have always understood the blind baggage to be the narrow forward platform of the foremost baggage or mail car, immediately behind the tender. This is one of the three points at which hobos may attempt a free ride on a passenger or express train, the other two being the roof of a car and the rods...
...University, already nominated by the anti-Smith-Raskob wing of his own party (TIME, July, 1). Regular Republicans and the Democrats who had followed Bishop James Cannon Jr. out of their party at Roanoke last fortnight thus coalesced against the regular Democratic state organization. The band played "Dixie." A platform was adopted without the bother of reading it. Mr. Slemp, exalted, cried: "I am in the presence of the dominant party of Virginia. Nationally there is no Democratic party. . . . They won't even sit down to dinner together. The Old Dominion joined the Union in 1928. I haven't gotten...
...Ambassador Dawes was again the target of every glance at Oxford's musty Sheldonian Theatre. In a black velvet hat and the scarlet gown and hood of a Doctor of Civil Law, he sat on the platform while the Public Orator of Oxford University, Dr. Arthur Blackburne Poynton, presented him as a "Missionary of peace and harmony among Nations...