Word: rostrum
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Fred L. Whipple, professor of Astronomy, mounts the rostrum on Wednesday, November 19, to speak on "V-2 Rockets and Astronomy...
Umberto Terracini has the reputation of a brave man. He spent 18 years in Mussolini's prisons. From his presiding rostrum in the Assembly he had once rebuked his own party boss: "Honorable Togliatti, you don't have the floor. I beg you to be silent." Terracini had been known to believe, in the past, that the Kremlin might err. He had raised such a fuss over the Hitler-Stalin pact in 1939 that he had been banished from the party's inner councils for a while. But last week even Umberto Terracini judged that...
Blaisdell will probably uphold the view that the industrial reconstruction of Germany is a vital factor in the recovery of that country. He brings to the rostrum experience gained as Chief of the United States Mission for Economic Affairs in London between...
When Henry A. Wallace, former Vice-President, Cabinet member, and Presidential confidant, steps to the rostrum in Soldiers Field tonight, he will be speaking as a private citizen. It is a striking tribute to the vitality and appeal of his ideology that, although he has no official standing and no claim to prominence other than as a member of the Fourth Estate, he is able to attract large and enthusiastic audiences wherever he speaks, and has become the symbol of all that is distasteful to Russophobes, isolationists, the Un-American Activities Committee, and the Old Guard of both parties...
...issue was peace v. eventual war. The immediate struggle was for control of the soapbox-for that, the Russians had demonstrated, was how they thought of U.N. The question was: How could the peace-loving nations prevent the Russians from using this potential focus of power and international moral rostrum to keep the nations divided and make peace a diminishing allusion...