Word: rostrum
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...cases the chairman is a former president retired to sinecure. The president gives orders as a team captain would, is controlled by the directors chiefly through their power to remove him. The chairman is often spokesman for his board. Typical of a chairman who uses his position as a rostrum is voluble Charles Michael Schwab of Bethlehem Steel Corp. Examples of well-known chairmen who have retired into the position are Charles Sumner Woolworth, 75, and Henry Holiday Timken. 64. Some chairmanships are frankly nominal. Such is James Anson Campbell's position as "chairman emeritus" of Youngstown Sheet & Tube...
Mayor Key is not in the best of health. His secretary has to help him up to the rostrum of his Bible class. At banquets he dozes wearily. But last week's vote displayed not only his political mastery of Atlanta but his determination to give his city economical government at any personal hazard. Last week his enthusiastic friends talked loudly of running him for Senator or Governor...
...Lindsay Blanton of Texas to get up and twit the Wets on their poor showing. Actually it was a bad time. For at that moment another Texas Congressman, paralyzed Joseph Jefferson Mansfield, put his black-gauntleted hands to the wheels of his rolling chair, pushed himself up to the rostrum and squiggled his name in the 145th blank space. Derisive Wet whoops from both sides of the House squelched crestfallen Congressman Blanton...
Small dapper Congressman William I. Sirovich of New York is one of the best showmen in the House of Representatives. An M. D., he has been known to line up a row of grisly exhibits across the Speaker's rostrum to impress upon his colleagues the evils of narcotics. He is the author of Ten Commandments to End the Depression. He is also the author of three plays. To the assistance of other playwrights and other showmen Congressman Sirovich rode full tilt last week...
...tractable. Mrs. Jessica Henderson of Boston had appeared to represent the Citizens Committee Against Vaccination. Go to jail, she cried, rather than be vaccinated. Pay the $5 State fine and keep your blood uncontaminated. Rev. Max A. Kapp of the Universalist Church invited her to use his platform for rostrum. Mayor Carriere and Dr. Burns talked to the proper members of the congregation, and Mr. Kapp withdrew his invitation. Dr. Marion H. Wilder, osteopath, could not be influenced. Mrs. Henderson spoke at his house, remembered that the day was Daniel Webster's 150th birth anniversary, quoted his "The fact...