Word: rostrum
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...excise tax along the lines of Senator Walsh's . . . amendment;" 2) the Connally amendment to raise $70,000,000 by restoring 1922 income tax rates. Straightway the Senate passed the Connally amendment, had scarcely ended its vote when President Hoover unexpectedly appeared at the Speaker's rostrum...
Speaker Garner's tax speech was the first use of his parliamentary privilege to join in House debate. As Speaker (1925-31) Nicholas Longworth descended the rostrum to address the House from the floor five times on such subjects as the Soldier Bonus, a Big Navy and the "Lame Duck" Amendment. Frederick Huntington Gillett (1919-25) spoke five times. During the eight years of his Speakership (1911-19) Champ Clark took the floor 18 times for regular debate and 45 times when the House was in the Committee of the Whole on the State of the Union. His speeches...
...President Hoover went to Richmond, Va. to address a conference of Governors on taxation and economy. He exhibited a table showing the rise of all governmental costs-Federal, State, municipal- from less than three billion dollars in 1913 to 14 billions in 1930. As the President left the rostrum, New York's ambitious Roosevelt stepped forward with outstretched hand. "Glad to see you again," said the President as they shook hands. Governor Roosevelt was ready with a compliment: "Very good speech, Mr. President." During the Wilson era the Hoovers and the Roosevelts were fast friends, saw much of each...
Next day the Governors and their ladies journeyed to Washington to be dined at the White House. Minnesota's gay Farmer-Laborite Olson, who had waved from the Richmond rostrum to an unidentified woman as the band played the national anthem, missed the dinner. Reporters found him at the Powhatan Hotel, caught in "the press of official business...
...vociferous foe of La Follettism, announced his candidacy for the Senate from Wisconsin. As a "stalwart" he will try to take the Republican nomination away from Senator John J. Elaine, La Follette "Progressive," in the September primary. Candidate Chappie got the front steps of the White House for a rostrum. "I make this announcement," he said, "after discussing with President Hoover at luncheon the campaign leading up to victory of real Republicans in Wisconsin. ... I take my stand with President Hoover. . . . It's time poison-peddlers be driven to cover...