Word: rostrum
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...reporters "cover" the Senate for the Congressional Record. They work in 15 minute shifts, generally sitting in empty Senate seats, sometimes at a table directly under the rostrum. Across special short-hand paper their fine-pointed pens fly in a script all their own. In the thick of argument, with half a dozen Senators darting in and out of the fray, they have no need to glance up but identify each Senator by the sound of his voice. Appalling to some is the mere thought of the number of Senatorial voices, otherwise forgotten, which Reporter Shuey may recollect...
Kettleman. The rostrum chosen by Secretary Wilbur for delivery of his newest suggestion was one of the richest oil "domes" in the country-an eminence about eight miles long and a mile and one half wide near Fresno, known as Kettleman Hills North Dome. Oil production in the Kettleman Hills is now curbed to some 14,000 bbls. per day by an operators' agreement expiring July i, 1931. Should the agreement break down, Kettleman...
Replied Vice President Curtis from the rostrum: "I love each and every one of you. I assure each and every one of you of my best wishes for these kindnesses...
...announced that he would address the company's annual presidents' dinner held simultaneously in Chicago, Sioux City, New York, Oklahoma City, East St. Louis, St. Paul, St. Joseph, Omaha, Fort Worth, Kansas City. At 9 p. m., employes banqueting in all ten cities heard him rap the rostrum, speak to them by means of a sound cinema...
...canton of the U. S. flag should be on the right of the object it adorns as in this case the rostrum of the House of Representatives (see frontispiece, Dec. 16) and not on Mr. James' right as he faces...