Word: rostrum
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Shera Montgomery, to whom the annual memorial service is his one big occasion, closed his eyes, upturned his face, lifted his clasped hands toward the ceiling and began : "Almighty God, unto whom all hearts are open. . . ." A chord was struck on a small, cheap piano that stood beside the rostrum and Dorothy Reddish, a young woman employed by the Washington Telephone Company, sang There Is No Death. "The Lord Is My Shepherd. . . ." For ten minutes Chaplain Montgomery gave the mourners his best. Then Patrick J. Haltigan, House reading clerk, began : "Huey Pierce Long, Senator from the State of Louisiana. Lawyer...
...demonstrators moved their blankets and belongings over to the Senate chamber so that the Assembly room could be used for Civil Service examinations. Later they moved back. A onetime Assemblyman named Theron McCampbell, now an independent candidate for the Democratic nomination for U. S. Senator, appeared uninvited on the rostrum...
Instead of taking any action itself, the Stock Exchange tipped off SEC, which in turn tipped off the New York State Bureau of Securities. Not until the day after the injunction was obtained last week did the gong on the rostrum above the floor of the Exchange bring trading to a halt for the formal announcement that Partner Meighan had been suspended for three years for "conduct or proceeding inconsistent with just and equitable principles of trade in that his firm . . . had engaged in reckless and unbusinesslike dealing. . . ." Later the New York Curb Exchange suspended McCaffrey's Curb members...
With President Conant speaking at the Tercentenary meeting at Sanders next Friday, consternation was great at the discovery of a fullfledged nest in the southeast wall and a host of winged inmates taking their morning flyer around the rostrum. Muddled maintenance men had to rip up a section of the plaster and lathing before the conquest...
...Garmisch tinkled in response. A cannon, lugged into the arena by oxen, boomed. The bands played the Olympic hymn. The crowd cheered, clapped, yelped "Heils" that echoed down from the mountains. When the uproar began to die down, German Skier Willi Bogner scrambled up the steps of a rostrum decked with fir boughs, raised his right arm in Olympic salute, touched the flag of the German delegation with his left hand and recited the Olympic oath: "We swear that we will take part in the Olympic Games in loyal competition, respecting the regulations which govern them and desirous of participating...