Word: rostrum
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Rostrum. No one knew how the signals got switched, but Evita abruptly called off her speech to the opening session. When the pipiribi chair was placed on the rostrum, the Peronista party emblem had been hastily covered with a piece of ordinary leather. Obviously somebody had decided that a party emblem was not a proper ornament for a convention representing the entire Argentine people...
...stroke of noon one day this week, Vice President Alben Barkley stepped into the Senate Chamber. Beside him walked an old friend: lean, bush-browed Dr. Frederick Brown Harris, 65. The Vice President took his place and called the Senate to order; standing in the rostrum, Dr. Harris began to pray...
...plumed cocked hats. The camera eye glanced up at the lazy wandering of a Navy blimp, and around at the wide lawn jammed with humanity. Then it came back to the inaugural stand as the natty, smiling little man, in whose honor the multitude was assembled, stepped onto the rostrum...
...just been informed the Finance Minister is drunk in the Diet Building. I demand he be called before this session to explain the budget bill." After seven more minutes of bedlam, the house recessed again, to reopen at 10:23 with embarrassed Premier Shigeru Yoshida himself manfully mounting the rostrum to apologize for Izumiyama's inability to be present...
Then the opposition played its ace. Mrs. Yamashita stepped primly forward, announced to the house: "The Finance Minister has tried to make insulting advances to me . . . I regret that as a woman representative I must say such things from this rostrum . . ." Mrs. Yamashita's opposition colleagues roared, "Shame on the government," voted to discipline Izumiyama. By 2 a.m., Izumiyama was sober enough to shamble before a caucus of his party comrades and apologize. At dawn he resigned from the cabinet...