Word: rostrum
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Shrewdly President Roosevelt let others launch his attack on oligopoly, dispatching lieutenants to rostrum and microphone. Politicians suspected that all this was a build-up for a similar attack of his own. presumably to be delivered in his Jackson Day dinner speech this coming week. Opening shot was fired in a broadcast last fortnight by another Jackson, who happens to be head of the Department of Justice's anti-trust division-Assistant Attorney General Robert Houghwout J ackson. Bob Jackson, who is reputedly being groomed as the next Democratic Governor of New York State, last week followed his first...
John Nance Garner looked down from his rostrum, his keen eyes seeing everything taking place on the Senate floor. Deliberately blind to half-a-dozen Senators on their feet clamoring to be heard, he put an end to four weeks of haggling, took a final roll call on the Pope-McGill Farm Bill. It was passed 59-to-29. His act was a defiance of the sacred tradition of free speech in the Senate, and an eminently sensible thing to do because 1) the bill was going to be passed anyhow, 2) its form was immaterial...
Representative Joseph Jefferson Mansfield of Columbus, Tex. is one of the two members of Congress who operate in wheel chairs.* A gentle, mild-mannered oldster of 76, who has been paralyzed since 1921, Congressman Mansfield created a furor in 1932 when he rolled himself down to the rostrum to sign a petition to discharge the Judiciary Committee from further consideration of a proposal to modify the 18th Amendment, and thus bring it to the floor. His was the 145th signature which the petition needed to become effective, a coincidence by which Congressman Mansfield professed to be greatly surprised. Last week...
...only one end of the rostrum is shown in the picture, it might be there was The Flag at both ends of the line of seated Commissioners, in which instance it would be equally reprehensible, for to have The Flag, at both ends reduces the display to mere decoration -which The Flag never...
...week's outstanding banking blast against Washington came from Rochester instead of from Boston. Apparently to avoid implicating the A. B. A., Banker Winthrop W. Aid-rich, chairman of New York's Chase National Bank, chose a luncheon meeting of the Rochester Chamber of Commerce as a rostrum for the most outspoken if not the most original attack upon the New Deal since the current market crash began. In a concise analysis of the situation which warmed the hearts of Wall Street, Banker Aldrich repeated and amplified the assertions made by President Gay of the New York Stock...