Word: rostrum
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Cinemactor Tony Randall, who can well afford it, has dodged the charge by listing his number under a phony name, Irvine W. Tishman. As in many another company, A.T.&T.'s officers also are getting more and more harassment at annual meetings. Kappel has special controls behind the rostrum at which he stands to cut off any speaker who becomes too windy or unruly. But he delivered his most effective cut with out benefit of switch at the April 15 annual meeting, where a professional meeting-goer asked a seemingly endless round of questions, including one seeking to know...
...throngs at the Democratic National Convention have suddenly thrown themselves into paroxysms of cheers, shrieks and rebel yells. Snaking through the mob come dozens of beach-tanned nubile wenches, smiling, waving placards. The band puffs its zillionth chorus of Happy Days Are Here Again. And then to the spotlighted rostrum moves Lyndon Baines Johnson, who has just been nominated by acclamation as the party's candidate to succeed himself. Humbly, he motions for silence...
...flown up earlier, told his father the next morning. Said Boles afterward, "He took it with characteristic courage." The night of the assassination, Caroline and John Jr. were told that their father was dead. A Cedar Felled. In the U.S. Senate, Chaplain Frederick Brown Harris mounted the rostrum and placed a single sheet of scrawled notes before him. "We gaze at a vacant place against the sky," he said, "as the President of the Republic goes down like a giant cedar." Then he recalled the words that Ohio Representative James A. Garfield spoke on the morning that Abraham Lincoln died...
...college should at no time allow a totally biased and bigoted viewpoint to be unequivocally expressed from a rostrum bearing the college seal. Martin Wasserman Williams College...
...Gentleman. Kennedy, when he took the rostrum, ignored the attack. Faubus claimed afterward that many Arkansans, outraged by Kennedy's stand on civil rights, had urged him not to introduce the President. "I figured I'd have to say it to protect myself," said he, "and I'd rather say it when he's here than after he's left." Complained Little Rock's Arkansas Gazette: "We might have wished that Mr. Faubus could have behaved himself like a gentleman for at least...