Word: rostrums
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...worn coat, settled down to the life of a small-town editor that he had known from his 18th year. Newton Diehl Baker, Secretary of War (1916-21), that short, slim, dark man whom Democrats call the "fighting pacifist" is too good a speaker to withdraw from the public rostrum, but his efforts were concentrated on earning fat legal fees from Cleveland industrialists. Thomas Watt Gregory, Attorney General (1914-19), prosecutor of trusts, had resigned two years before the end came. He returned to Texas; legal fees consoled...
...WCSH, WTIC, WGY, WGR, WBZ, WLIT, WFI, WRC, KDKA, WCAE, WTAM, WWJ, WSAI, WLIB, WGN, KYW, KSD, WOC, WCCO, WDAF, WHAS, WSM, WSB, WMC, KOA, KPO, KGO, KFI, KGW, KOMO, KFOA or KHQ, radiophiles may hear the voice of the President. He will talk about President Washington from the rostrum of the House of Representatives, some Senators and Congressmen being seated before...
...Church of Fort Worth, to remonstrate against the evangelist's utterances upon Chipps' close friend, Mayor H. C. Meacham of Fort Worth. Politics, the Ku Klux Klan, Roman Catholicism¶all lay behind the diatribes that Evangelist Norris considered himself called upon to utter from his church rostrum. He had been threatened with death; he believed that angry Mr. Chipps had come to kill him; he, famed for his gunmanship, shot quickly, to be first. Later he learned, with regret, that Mr. Chipps was not armed that...
Following the usual procedure in triangular debates, each institution will send two teams to the rostrum, one speaking at home while the other will speak on a foreign platform. In this case, the orators defending the affirmative side of the question will travel. The Crimson will engage the Brown speakers at Cambridge and Wesleyan at Middletown, Connecticut...
...transgressions which sensational news pages did much to promote. Judge Lindsey has been a very busy man for 26 years, dealing with recalcitrant, vicious, ignorant and also foolish, reckless and genuinely happy young people. Out of minor bench in a secondary U. S. city, Judge Lindsey has made national rostrum...