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While the flames flared highest, up to a little flag-draped rostrum stumped clubfooted, wild-eyed little Dr. Paul Joseph Goebbels, Minister of Propaganda and Public Enlightenment in the Nazi Cabinet, organizer of the great midnight bibliocaust...
Until last week Rumania's Parliament had a handsome speaker's rostrum. After three weeks of howling insults, fist fights, hurling inkpots-all caused by Rumania's Skoda munitions scandal and the suicide of General Zika Popescu (TIME, April 10)-the rostrum was reduced to a blasted stump of kindling wood last week. The public was still in the dark on just who had bribed whom, just how much money Czechoslovak munitions tycoons had paid to win their $90,000,000 contract, and what had become of the money...
...recent years, the CRIMSON has undertaken to assist in this task of liaison between the administration and the student body. But there is present in this role the danger of confusing the acts of the right hand with those of the left: the left passes down from the rostrum the official advice about undergraduate activities; the right ventures to deliver to the rostrum undergraduate criticisms of the conduct of one part of the University or another. Several of the articles in the series on concentration seem ignorant of their proper role. They endeavor to hand on the freshman a representation...
When the new House meets, the formality of electing its Speaker will occur. New York's Republican Snell will get about 117 votes. With 313 votes Democrat Rainey will be elevated to the rostrum to take legislative command of the New Deal...
Against such massed strength the Mc-Duffie ticket was helpless. Representative Rainey went up, 166 to 112, for Speaker, with other "deal" candidates winning handily. The vote sent glimmering Vice President Garner's aspiration to run the House from the Senate rostrum. In his place the House Democrats had picked an oldster of 28 years service, a lawyer-turned-farmer, a low-tariff sales-taxer, a radical of yesterday with whose advanced ideas the country is just catching...