Word: rostrum
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Roosevelt came out of political retirement to advance the Presidential candidacy of Al Smith. On his crutches he clumped up to the rostrum of the Democratic convention in Madison Square Garden, delivered an impassionate nominating speech that turned the rowdy galleries into pandemonium. Davis, not Smith, got the nomination but Mr. Roosevelt's efforts did not pass unnoticed. Four years later, this time at Houston, he was again chosen to nominate his "Happy Warrior." But in 1928 "Al" wanted more assistance from his loyal friend "Frank" than a nominating speech. He needed a good strong name at the head...
...vote: Garner, 218; Snell: 207; Schneider, a Wisconsin Insurgent: 5. None of the three voted for himself. With the House, now Democratic for the first time in twelve years, standing and cheering, Speaker Garner in a brown-speckled suit was ceremoniously led up the new blue carpet to the rostrum, duly installed. With one autocratic sweep he swore in the whole House membership at once. Other Democratic elections: Henry Thomas Rainey of Illinois, Majority Leader; South Trimble of Kentucky, House Clerk; Kenneth Romney of Montana, Sergeant-at-Arms. Rules revision was temporarily postponed as some 5,000 legislative proposals were...
...doing it definitely handed control of the 72nd House of Representatives which meets this week for the first time, over to Democracy by a molecular majority. On that majority a stocky little Texan with fiery blue eyes and stubbly white hair pre pared to mount the rostrum to the stiff high-backed chair which holds the Speaker of the House and a power second only to that of the President. His name was John Nance Garner and for 28 years he had ably and shrewdly represented in Congress his State's 15th district, an area the size...
...nobody, bothered nobody, he was invited to public functions, allowed to snap his shutter openly. He has attended League of Nations meetings. He snapped the signing of the Kellogg Pact. When the late great Gustav Stresemann made his last speech at Geneva, Dr. Salomon was calmly seated below the rostrum. He accompanied Chancellor Brüning and German Foreign Minister Curtius and snapped them sipping coffee with // Duce. Brer Briand, Europe's "Master Parliamentarian," has given him a nickname that has stuck: Le Roi des Indiscrets, King of the Indiscreet...
Gandhi pattered to the rostrum, squatted beneath his tentlike shawl, submitted him self to heckling by some of the world's most talented hecklers, Britain's best. "What I want to know," drawled the first Parliamentary questioner, "is what does this term Mahatma mean? What is a Mahatma?" To catch the little man's low answer everyone strained forward, especially Miss Megan Lloyd George, buxom M. P. "Mahatma, sir," smiled Mr. Gandhi, "means 'an insignificant person.' " Hastily the British chairman interjected, "I am sure we all know that Mahatma is an Indian term meaning...