Word: auditorium
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...basement of Seattle's Civic Auditorium, delegates to the biennial convention of the A.F.L.-C.I.O. Bricklayers Union were happily engaged in the normal pursuits of a beer bust one night last week when a pair of topflight Democratic politicians dropped in. He hoped, said Adlai Stevenson, that his amiable and popular companion, Washington's Democratic Senator Warren Magnuson, would be re-elected by a big majority. Then he added: "And I hope he can carry somebody else along with...
Still, it was Stevenson who did most of the talking,* and the farther he traveled, the harder he hit. And the harder he hit, the better the spirited audiences seemed to like it. The President, he told a capacity house in the Seattle auditorium, responded to his own suggestion that the H-bomb tests be curbed with "sneers and astonishing distortion of what I said." In Oakland he added: "I'll let the [American people] judge whether it is a 'theatrical gesture' ... to suggest a safe way to end the deadly competition to build and explode...
...Salt Lake City's Rainbow Randevu dance hall (serving as a political auditorium for the occasion), Nixon gripped the sides of his lectern to keep himself erect. Photographers edged forward, setting their cameras to picture the Vice President at his moment of collapse. Behind Nixon, Dr. Todd crouched anxiously a few feet away. But somehow Nixon made it. finishing the speech that he later described as "the toughest of my life...
Colonial rule stands in the way of Africans' search for dignity and economic well-being, three speakers told a weekend conference on "Africa: Toward Freedom" in Agassiz Auditorium...
Governor Adlai E. Stevenson told a capacity crowd in Springfield Memorial Auditorium Saturday night that "the deeply ominous growth of bigness in American society" is threatening individual freedom, as he climaxed a day-long tour through key cities and towns in Rhode Island and southern Massachusetts...