Democratic Platform Highlights from the National Convention
The platform endorses flood relief and reclamation for the Mississippi and Colorado rivers, urges efficient transportation and federal road construction, supports collective bargaining and labor protections, condemns abusive injunctions, and calls for convict labor laws reforms. It outlines unemployment relief via public works, veterans’ care improvements, women’s equality, and immigration and election reform.
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Mississippi
Colorado
Colorado River
Capital
Labor
Bar
Campaign Expenditures and Public Disclosure Pledge
A political platform condemns excessive campaign spending and calls for full public disclosure. It proposes quarterly, then increasingly frequent, publication of all contributions and expenditures starting August 1, 1928, with names, amounts, and purposes to be filed with house and senate committees.
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House
Senate
National Committee
No Hope Now Caution and Marbles Memory Quip
A judge warns a defendant to tell the truth while a witty exchange unfolds. The dusky defendant exclaims the case is lost. A window sight brings childhood memory of a marble game with Eddie, but the reply recalls a street fight and helping Eddie pick up his teeth.
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American Legion Monthly
Johnny
Eddie
Fly-Tox claims quick, wide mosquito protection for homes
The ad promotes FLY-TOX as a fast acting spray that can free a home from mosquitoes in two minutes. It instructs spraying toward the ceiling and covering hangings, closets and screens, claiming the product is safe, fragrant and easy to use and guaranteed.
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Mellon Institute of Industrial Research
Rex
Saving money as protection against illness and unemployment
The piece argues that earning money is secondary to saving money. It notes that many fortunes arise from pennies saved in youth and portrays saving as essential to prevent destitution during illness or unemployment. Blowing Rock N C.
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Democratic National Platform
Congress
America
Democratic Party
Women’s and Children’s Bureau
Republican Arty
Washington
Congress of
United States
National Democracy
Blowing Rock
N. C
McCormick and
Deering
Boone
Boone Hardware Co
Tic Man
Farmers Hardware & Supply Company
Arthur Brisbane
John J. Gaines
E. C. Dunkel
the Fumble Family
Nancy Hart
DR. Frank Crane
Watauga Democrat
Dr. Crane
Dr. Gaines
Miss Veray
Albert T. Reid
E. Courtney Dunkel
Fumble Family
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