Word: platforms
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...York chums waged war. At a Manhattan County committee meeting of the party, a divisional director of Mr. Quill's union leaped to the platform, with a pack of Communist sympathizers, took over the proceedings. The lights flashed off, on, off again. Amid the hullabaloo the Quillsters voted down the anti-Communist resolution, yelled recriminations at those who objected, elected Leftist Congressman Vito Marcantonio chairman of their rump unit. Mr. Marcantonio declined, but he sideswiped the purgers as actors "playing the role of international statesmen. They should go back to ringing doorbells and climbing stairs...
Inter-House debating has undergone complete reorganization for the purpose of making speaking from the public platform available to more undergraduates, Stanley O. Beren 41, Chairman of the Inter-House Debating Council announced yesterday...
...should like to be among the first to plug Lindbergh for President in 1940; perhaps on a no-party platform of pure Americanism through this period of international stress. CHARLES F. MCREYNOLDS...
...with faces blown away bobbing down muddy Soochow Creek; mangled flesh being shoveled out of shell-shattered ruins. Unforgettable were the despairing faces of old Spanish women. Most unforgettable of all: a blood-covered, four-year-old Chinese child, sitting bolt upright like a doll on a deserted railway platform, behind him the charred beams of the station...
...After a transcontinental train trip in 1879, Robert Louis Stevenson (his fellow travelers called him "Shakespeare") tells what it was like to sleep on a board stretched between two seats, to wash in a tin dish on the car's windy platform...