Word: rostrum
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...noon last week President Hoover nipped on his radio in the Lincoln Study and sat down to listen to his renomination in Chicago. By long distance telephone he had bossed the Republican Convention as completely as if he had stood up on the Stadium rostrum and shouted his orders directly at the delegates. His patronage power had defeated a Prohibition plank for Repeal, forced the adoption of one for Revision (see p. 12). At his dictation every event moved according to schedule, the renomination was hardly more than a perfunctory anticlimax...
This time there was to be no mistake about the calibre of the demonstration. Movie lights were switched on in ample time to record the climax of the Scott speech. Each delegate had been given a small U. S. flag and a noisemaking gadget. High above the rostrum a flag fell from the illuminated portrait of the President. Delegate Louis B. Mayer of California, partner in Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer, was there in person to project ghostly slides of President Hoover on screens at each end of the hall. Senator Fess. again cackling with joy, produced a huge Hoover portrait...
When the sandblasting was over. Dr. France tried to get to the rostrum himself. Protesting about "his rights," he was bundled off by policemen (like Nominee Throttlebottom in Of Thee I Sing). He was rescued by Hearst newshawks, allowed to pour out his grievances: "This is a colossal piece of political racketeering. I was going to put the name of Calvin Coolidge before the convention and it would have stampeded them. And Snell knew it. The nomination of this man Hoover is invalid...
...every unbossed convention there are imponderables which a compelling personality on the rostrum may miraculously put into action. William Jennings Bryan had the power to sway delegates to unexpected results. Alfred Emanuel Smith will enter the convention, not only, as a candidate for the Presidency but also as a delegate-at-large from New York. As such the rostrum will be his for the asking. He may take it to impress his Wet views upon the delegates during the platform debate which precedes the nomination tussle. At such a tense time a speech by the "Happy Warrior," full of fire...
...morning 20 minutes after the market had opened President Richard Whitney mounted his rostrum, rang the electric gong. What trading there was came to a halt. Gravely President Whitney announced that Member McKeon had been suspended from the Exchange for one year. The charges were that on April 28 (a day when prices were falling) Member McKeon "made offers to sell securities for the purpose of upsetting the equilibrium of the market and bringing about a condition of demoralization in which prices would not fairly reflect market values, and thereby was guilty of acts inconsistent with just and equitable principles...