Word: rostrum
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...House a fine new green carpet had been laid. Potted palms and photographers' lights were rigged around the rostrum. The hands of the clock (substituted for those stolen last summer) stood erect at 12 when gaunt, bushy-browed Speaker Byrns, a pink carnation in his lapel, whammed down his gavel, brought 366 magpie Members of the House to comparatively silent order. Democratic Floor Leader William Brockman ("Tallulah's Father") Bankhead, ill throughout the last session, uprose to request unanimous consent for the House to recess subject to the call of the Speaker so that President Roosevelt might deliver...
...their French opponents, captained by Baron Robert de Nexon, into two cubicles at one end of the Garden. At the other end, on a huge platform, sandwich men lined up to represent the hands as dealt to the players. They walked to the centre of the rostrum, dropped their signs as the corresponding cards were played. Only defect in this unique spectacle, from the point of view of Promoter Jacobs, was the number of spectators who watched the Four Aces win by a final score of 97,250-94,440. Of the 800 on hand not more than half...
...important function of the American Iron & Steel Institute is grinding out publicity calculated to create good will for the steel industry. The Institute is somewhat handicapped by the fact that U. S. steelmen generally exhibit a singular lack of public-relations sense, particularly when they get anywhere near a rostrum. Nevertheless, the Institute's mimeographs continue to hum, last week turned out a batch of statistics showing that nine out of every ten steel executives rose from the ranks...
...cleverer politician ever mounted a rostrum than the first President of the Philippine Commonwealth. Most Mestizos (of mixed blood) are constitutionally gifted with political "it." But in the past 30 years Manuel Quezon has given his countrymen an exhibition of straddling, transference and political gymnastics which, if performed on horseback, would make him the wonder of the equestrian world...
...working officer who for years has been known to the Press as "Chief of the Troop Office." His name was General Ludwig Beck. In the first brief account of the ceremonies an official press release casually gave him his real title-"Chief of the General Staff." Stepping to the rostrum, Chief of Staff Beck told how it had been done...