Word: rostrum
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...long time it has been since any U. S. steelmaster strode to a rostrum, thrust out his chin and in so many words predicted a more glowing future for the industry than anything in its molten past. Last week's steel production, 23% of capacity, was nothing to make steelmen loquacious. But in Manhattan the learned American Society for Metals heard from the lips of Tom Mercer Girdler, steelmen's steelman and president-chairman of Republic Steel Corp., these words...
Thereupon some 50 distinguished men and women began taking turns at the speaker's rostrum where alert, bird-like Mrs. Meloney presided, or before microphones in faraway places. Busy Mrs. Franklin D. Roosevelt dashed down from Hyde Park to give the Conference one of her neat little speeches which sound so much more important than they look in print. Said she: "The higher standards which women now set themselves, for whatever work they engage in, will raise the standard of men's work. . . . The biggest change in standards must come [in] the field of business and of labor...
...also made Father O'Malley an officeholder for the first time in his life. He was elected Lieutenant Governor of the sovereign and progressive State of Wisconsin. For the last 19 months Lieutenant Governor O'Malley has divided his time between punching tickets and pounding his gavel on the rostrum of Wisconsin's Senate. Last week he proved his willingness to do both for the New Deal...
...their own coffee candidate, Borges de Medeiros, and withdrew. Three days later Dr. Vargas rushed through his inauguration in five minutes. Only members of the diplomatic corps, Brazilian officials and their families were invited, but thousands swarmed outside Tiradentes Palace in the rain while President Vargas stood before the rostrum and gave his oath to uphold his new constitution for the next four years. Most novel provision of this 44-page opus compels each Minister of the Brazilian Government to provide himself with a "brain trust" of technical experts. On this point the new constitution reads: "It is forbidden...
...Chancellor entered with enormous Speaker Göring, gorgeous in his self-designed uniform as a General of Aviation (see p. 16). Deputies bellowed "Heil Hitler!" General Göring banged his bell, and then there was a long wait while the Chancellor fussed with his papers before he took the rostrum. When he spoke his voice at first lacked its usual barking force. "Deputies, men of the Reichstag," he husked, "by order of the Reich Government, the Reichstag's President Göring called you together today to afford me the possibility to explain. ... I shall be ruthlessly frank. I shall observe...