Word: platforms
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...weeks before he had summoned it to overthrow the Byrd-Glass-Swanson organization which had supported Nominee Smith and was "defeated, discredited . . . still unwashed and still unrepentant." When Hoovercratic Virginians obeyed the call and met at Roanoke, Bishop Cannon sent them his son David, a 6,000-word platform, a special message and his blessing. But he stayed away himself...
...hopes the state Republicans would choose that candidate, thus permitting the two groups to coalesce against the regular Democrats. Nominee Brown, a 35-year-old professor of psychology at Washington & Lee University, was described as the state's "most cantankerous and catamountish campaigner," but when led to the platform he turned out to be a mild-mannered polite gentle man, still trailing a classroom atmosphere after him as he pleaded against bitterness, called the conventioneers "pioneers in a new era of humanity...
...Adopted the Cannon platform in which Prohibition was called "the high-water mark of civilization." All resources were pledged to up-to-the-hilt enforcement...
...Janeiro, editors frantically cabled for longer and faster reports on just what Miss France, Miss Spain, Miss Austria, Miss Brazil were doing, wearing, saying at each instant of the final ceremony. U. S. reporters endeavored to supply the demand. In the Galveston City Auditorium behind the horseshoe platform on which the beauties paraded, were a dozen correspondents and as many telegraph operators. Minute by minute the correspondents dictated their stories. Sample dictation...
...Kappa Society with a somewhat foolish grin on its scholarly features. After all, anyone who knows anything about what Harvard has of late years been trying to offer in the way of an education will know where to direct his smile when he sees a man stride across the platform to receive his degree with a summa or a high magna but looks in vain for any flash of gold dangling from his watch chain...