Word: rostrum
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...disturbance was not squelched. Directly under the rostrum, Chicago Boss Jake Arvey and Adlai Stevenson, candidate for governor of Illinois, continued to yell at the chair. California's hulking Chairman Jack Shelley, an ex-University of San Francisco football tackle, plunged up the aisle to the platform, roaring for recognition. They all wanted it to be announced that their delegations had voted against Mississippi. On the platform Shelley barked into the ear of Sergeant at Arms Leslie Biffle: "You'd better not cut the mikes on us tomorrow when we start talking on civil rights...
With a flutter of wings, the pigeons swept up & out. The dignitaries on the platform cringed and shrank away like troops before a strafing attack. Torpid delegates broke into a roar of delight. One bird landed on the rostrum, where Chairman Sam Rayburn scooped it up and flung it roofward again. Two landed on a platform fan, stayed there with the breeze ruffling their tail feathers...
...lashed, the dreary assemblage awoke with screams of wounded pride. Imprecations rattled about the hall like hailstones. Angry old men glared and shook their fists at Basso, who stood slender, confident and amused behind the speaker's desk. A ruddy, portly old Socialist waddled up to the rostrum, his pince-nez and a finger wagging together. Cried he: "You are a clever fellow, Basso, and a good orator, but you have used us like doormats." Mopping his face with a silk handkerchief, Basso surveyed the old gentleman, then shrugged and turned away. The Socialist Party might be dead...
...notable shots: the breath-catching moment when aged Cardinal Dougherty stumbled and nearly fell from the rostrum; Speaker Martin's frozen face as Dewey accepted the nomination; Governor Sigler's dejection as he waited to release the Michigan delegation; Herbert Hoover's emotion at the affectionate demonstration that greeted him; the Dewey motorcade, threading its way through the wet, crowded streets to Convention Hall for the acceptance speech...
...Bread. Most newsmen, sitting at planked tables beside and behind the rostrum, shared the disadvantage point that made Rebecca West "more familiar with the contours which members of the Republican Party present to the world behind them than in front" (the New York Herald Tribune headlined her piece: BRITISH OBSERVER Is IMPRESSED MOST BY STASSEN'S FOLLOWING...