Word: rostrumism
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High is the code of honor on the New York Stock Exchange. Violation of this code is the worst disgrace which can overtake a member. Last week Exchange President Richard Whitney mounted the rostrum and trading was halted while he announced that two members had been found guilty of highly improper conduct, expelled. The men were G. Lisle Forman and Morrison B. Orr, floor partners of the recently insolvent firm of Prince & Whitely (TIME, Oct. 20). Already shocking to Wall Street, the affairs of Prince & Whitely loomed even more unpleasant after this official verdict...
...Monday, Wall Street was flooded with rumors that a house would fail. Tuesday morning stories of pending insolvencies were thicker, more persistent. At 1:30 President Richard Whitney mounted the rostrum of the Exchange. Trading was supplanted by a tense silence. Then an excited roar greeted the announcement that J. A. Sisto & Co. Inc. were unable to meet their engagements. Selling pressure increased. By the close of the market 34% of the common stocks listed were at least 20% below their old 1929 bottoms, while 59% touched or dipped under that level...
...elected in 1920. Total service: 35 years.? Representative Cooper made a memorable impression upon all delegates at the G. O. P. Repub- lican National Convention at Cleveland in 1924 when, a La Follette supporter, he defied the Old Guard in a thumping speech from the rostrum...
...mounted the rostrum "Uncle Arthur" looked strangely thin. No wonder. He had just lost a "stone" (14 lb.). Under doctors' orders he and Mrs. Henderson spent most of August gulping down the slimming waters of a Welsh spa (Llandrindod Wells), from which they hastened via London to Geneva. In pulpit tones, measured, slow and once or twice ringingly fervent, Mr. Henderson made last week the speech of his life, successfully courted fame by demanding that the League act to achieve Disarmament, cease piddling about "Security," the Frenchified nebulosity upon which M. Briand is trying to erect his famed "United...
...takes the chair to trace the botanical development of the earth's crust. This completes the first half year's work with smatterings of laboratory work on plants which despite its brief survey is still one of the best pleas for the course. Professors Woodcock and Wyman hold the rostrum for the second half year with their explanations of zoological transformations. The practical research accompanying these lectures becomes dull and there is little of worth accomplished so varied and diversified are the natures of the experiments, which incidentally everyone knows the answers to before they start...