Word: rostrum
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Edmundson revolters held a pre-convention caucus. For 90 minutes, there was talk of "union democracy." Then a scuffle broke out in the rear, and the chocking sound of fist meeting jaw. Lewisites swarmed over chairs, mounted the rostrum, demanded-and took-the floor. Edmundson left, forgetting his coat...
...Paris last week General Charles de Gaulle made his first full-dress political speech in France. Beside him on the Palais de Chaillot's flower-banked rostrum was Foreign Commissioner Georges Bidault, Catholic history professor who led the underground's National Council of Resistance...
...rostrum went a brief resolution from Tennessee's Kenneth McKellar, the premier spoilsman of the Senate. It carried diplomatic dynamite. Modestly, it called on the U.S. to acquire...
...Hotel de Ville in Algiers, overlooking the palm-skirted harbor, stalked General Charles de Gaulle last week to address the maiden session of the new French Consultative Assembly. Through cheering crowds De Gaulle passed into the high-ceilinged chamber. He mounted the rostrum, faced a room filled with Liberation Committee members, Allied diplomatic observers, and Assembly delegates, many of whom had come directly from Occupied France. Looking down, De Gaulle saw General Henri Honore Giraud. And perhaps in his mind's eye he could see France too-Strasbourg, Metz, Lyon, Marseilles, Paris. Said he, grimly and pointedly...
This week, for the first time since June 1940, the voice of Metropolitan France will be heard. From the rostrum in a high-ceilinged chamber, long the home of the Algerian financial assembly, the first session of the French Provisional Consultative Assembly will be called to order in Algiers. Seated in semicircular rows ringing the rostrum, 84 men will represent France according to democratic parliamentary procedure, at least 40 of them representatives of the highly organized French underground itself. They will reflect all political hues, from Conservatives to Communists. They will speak for a renascent France...