Word: rostrum
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Honorable and red-faced Mr. Pepper of Florida, dubbed "Senator" by fellow-students in the Law School during the early Twenties, sounded off last night on the state of the nation before mounting the speaker's rostrum at the Law School Forcm to talk about the state of the world. Today's Red Scare he terms "passing whim" and the current communications crisis has caused him to envision a possible "national authority to regulate utilities...
...Chinese delegates, headed by George Yeh, a Kuomintang yesman in the Foreign Office, took one look at the neon-lighted map behind the rostrum and rose in objection. The map showed Tibet as independent and, they gravely protested, was it not internationally recognized that Tibet is a part of China? The map was hastily changed; the poker-faced expressions of the Tibetans, who had journeyed 21 days by foot, pony, train and plane from their mountain-rimmed domain, changed to amused indulgence. When Madame Karim el Sayid, a young and buxom Egyptian, opposed Jewish immigration to Palestine, the five delegates...
...readers in next week's issue. The National Broadcasting Co. has built eight special programs* around the forum, will broadcast them on a national hookup; the U.S. State Department is broadcasting pertinent portions of the forum overseas. For these three days, certainly, Cleveland promises to be the rostrum of the world's international affairs...
...their backs. He managed to grab the hands of a few and ducked into the Democratic cloakroom. Then he reappeared in the rear of the Chamber, sucking on a cigar, and shook hands with Tennessee's old spoilsman, Kenneth McKellar. The arena was noisy with confusion. On the rostrum Senate Secretary Leslie Biffle banged the little ivory block on the desk of the presiding officer and convened the Senate of the 80th Congress...
...this week, as, standing on the rostrum of the House, he delivered the fruit of all this husbandry to a joint session of Congress, it was clear that Harry Truman had been the victim of too much conferring, too much polishing, too much looking over his shoulder at his critics. By the time he was finished, it was apparent that he could have delivered his message in either the Union League Club or a union hall, without getting many cheers or jeers in either place...