Word: rostrum
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...foes shrewdly called on ailing old Edouard Herriot, honorary President of the Assembly, who for years has appealed more to French emotions than to French intelligence. Bowed under the weight of his 82 years and long illness, he was too feeble to rise and mount the rostrum, but from his bench the "old bear" spoke theatrically in his deep voice. "I have read the documents with anguish," he rumbled. "No one can say that Great Britain is engaged to stand by our side. That alone would be enough to make me reject EDC . . . The treaty does not give France...
Songs & Blows. With a shout, the Gaullists leaped to their feet. The Communists burst into the Marseillaise. "Back to Moscow," M.R.P. Deputies hooted. A Gaullist and a Socialist almost came to blows. Ex-Premier Paul Reynaud climbed the rostrum, shouted above the uproar: "This is the first time in the history of the French Parliament that a treaty has been rejected without the author [ex-Premier René Pleven] or the signer [Robert Schuman] of the treaty having been heard." Then EDC supporters struck up the Marseillaise. "Why not Deutschland über Alles?" shouted a heckler...
Means, Not Ends. Pale and defiant, Mendès took the rostrum. Looking at Pinay and Reynaud, he snapped: "I admire your energetic attitudes, although they have not always been in evidence . . . The treaty hung fire for 2½ years. It was signed by the Pinay government, but I don't recall Monsieur Pinay trying to bring it to a vote...
...governor's mansion, Meek was not seated at Ike's table. When the presidential motorcade left for the fairgrounds, Illinois' Governor William G. Stratton and Indiana's Governor George Craig rode with Ike. Meek rode with his family, six cars behind. On the rostrum, when Meek was introduced, he bounded out of his chair, waved to the crowd and turned to shake hands with Ike. Startled, the President remained seated...
American Objections. A silent Congress listened to Syngman Rhee's proposals. But when he stepped down from the speaker's rostrum and made his way from the chamber, a prolonged ovation echoed after...