Word: rostrum
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...itself out in a futile filibuster; a quorum and more had stood fast, literally under the guns of miniature cruiser batteries set up in a corner of the Senate chamber by Senator Hale of Maine to illustrate his objections to the Treaty. Sixteen reservations had been stacked on the rostrum only to be toppled off one by one into the trashbasket and defeat by a long-suffering Senate majority. Only the Norris reservation stipulating that no secret agreements lurked behind the Treaty itself appeared likely to be tacked on to the instrument-and then only if stripped of its "offensive...
...this embargo all. Last week the Prime Minister, who is also Commonwealth Treasurer (he has been called "The Snowden of Canberra"), made his budget speech. He began by announcing that the Commonwealth Treasury has a deficit of £14,000,000 ($68,000,000). Then, leaning from the rostrum tense and resolute he said, displaying a sheaf of papers: "I have in my hand a new table of tariffs, the most sensational in the history of the Commonwealth...
Before him, crowded cheek to jowl, sat whites and blacks, men and women, boys and girls, for the "Live-at-Home" movement included Negroes. Newsmen remarked with astonishment upon the sudden evaporation of race prejudice. Negroes spoke from the same rostrum as Governor Gardner about the "recovery of their race's self-respect." Declared Governor Gardner...
...Parliament would be well advised," he lectured, pounding the rostrum, "to create a body subordinate to itself to assist in its deliberations to the utmost. The spectacle of economic subordinates debating day after day with a fearless detachment from public opinion all the most disputed questions of finance and trade and reaching conclusions by voting would be an innovation, but an innovation which could easily be embraced by our flexible constitutional system...
Banging the rostrum as though to smash it, barking his words in thin staccato, turning from side to side and gesticulating so vigorously that his glasses seemed about to fall off, General Dawes delivered one of his best speeches in quite his best, slashing, he-American style...