Word: platforms
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...ablest leaders of yesterday were gone from the T.U.C. platform. Many were in government jobs. In a puzzling sense they were in the positions the capitalist bosses used to occupy-and sometimes their attitude toward the unions was that of bosses, not that of brother laborites...
...express from Shanghai clanked to a stop in Peiping's Chien Men station. Waiting on the platform was a solid array of Communist bigwigs-Chairman Mao Tse-tung, Commander in Chief Chu Teh, foreign affairs expert, Chou Enlai, a score of lesser party bosses and assorted "democratic personages." From the train into this welcoming group stepped dignified little Madame Sun Yatsen...
...tung proclaimed last July. The Sino-Soviet Friendship Association was the apparatus the Communists set up to get Chinese to lean-toward the U.S.S.R., of course. Association branches have mushroomed in every sizable Communist-held city. Shanghai's got under way last week. On a public platform adorned with huge posters of Lenin, Stalin, Mao Tse-tung and Chu Teh, Shanghai's Communist leaders echoed the word: "We want to lean to one side...
Also without qualms was Charley Lupica of Cleveland, who swore that he would sit on a flagpole until the Indians moved into first place in the American League. Last week the Indians were in third place and Charley was still aloft, on a platform fitted out with a television set, a down-filled mattress and a telephone...
...after the Communist takeover, the once booming, bustling, bawdy metropolis is dying. Shanghai has been withered by Nationalist blockade, damaged by flood and typhoon, weakened by arrogant Red treatment of its foreign businessmen and consulates. Brisk, bald General Chen Yi, Shanghai's new Red mayor, standing on a platform in front of a huge oil portrait of Communist Leader Mao Tse-tung, told a handpicked group of "Shanghai representatives" what the Communists propose...