Word: rostrum
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...Battery to help the Army. She still actively bangs her tambourine in the corps of Yonkers, N. Y. To newsgatherers she related how her first U. S. convert was an unfortunate who, ejected from a saloon, had landed head down in an ash barrel. Peering over an improvised rostrum at a great throng she cried: "We began here 50 years ago, and always we'll go on. Hallelujah...
...Minister of Finance took orders from his chief by telephone, directed the government's defense. In the Chamber of Deputies, three times the Tardieu-Cheron forces beat off the opposition. The deputies prepared to vote on a measure to reduce the income tax for married women. On the rostrum Pudgy Minister Cheron raised his hand...
...reporters "cover" the Senate for the Congressional Record. They work in 15 minute shifts, generally sitting in empty Senate seats, sometimes at a table directly under the rostrum. Across special short-hand paper their fine-pointed pens fly in a script all their own. In the thick of argument, with half a dozen Senators darting in and out of the fray, they have no need to glance up but identify each Senator by the sound of his voice. Appalling to some is the mere thought of the number of Senatorial voices, otherwise forgotten, which Reporter Shuey may recollect...
Kettleman. The rostrum chosen by Secretary Wilbur for delivery of his newest suggestion was one of the richest oil "domes" in the country-an eminence about eight miles long and a mile and one half wide near Fresno, known as Kettleman Hills North Dome. Oil production in the Kettleman Hills is now curbed to some 14,000 bbls. per day by an operators' agreement expiring July i, 1931. Should the agreement break down, Kettleman...
...announced that he would address the company's annual presidents' dinner held simultaneously in Chicago, Sioux City, New York, Oklahoma City, East St. Louis, St. Paul, St. Joseph, Omaha, Fort Worth, Kansas City. At 9 p. m., employes banqueting in all ten cities heard him rap the rostrum, speak to them by means of a sound cinema...