Word: rostrums
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Pulpit was the plain rostrum of the Smithfield Street M. E. Church of Pittsburgh, where the M. E. Council of Cities was in session...
...Echo de Paris had no kind comment to make upon President Coolidge's message to Congress: "It is an outline of American policy exclusively directed toward attaining her own particular ends, in spite of the fine sounding phrases, which to our ears smack of the pulpit rather than the rostrum...
...Board of Regents then remembered that when Arthur Hill gave Michigan the auditorium, he stipulated in the deed that it should never house " a partisan or political discussion." Interpreting Mr. Wickersham's topic as political, the Board announced that Mr. Wickersham would be obliged to seek another rostrum. This announcement was echoed by the Secretary of the University, who closed the doors of all buildings on his campus to Mr. Wickersham and his " political propaganda...
Forth from the White House followed by innumerable attendants, Mr. and Mrs. Warren G. Harding set out on a 1,500 mile journey to Alaska and return. A seven car train, with a specially built car, the Superb, embodying a rear platform rostrum, and a reception room, and a communication department completely equipped for telephone, telegraph and radio communication, carried the President's party...
Censors, vigilance societies, and the whole tribe of guardians of the public mind, are well aware that print is their arch-enemy. Against the watchful custodians of the mails, social heresy or political immorality has little chance. The rostrum, too, is carefully safeguarded, as New York learned last year when it tried to hear such public speakers as Mrs. Sanger and Mr. Zero. But there is another ulcer at the heart of the body politic which was only recently discovered. That disease is Art: the diagnosticians are the American Legion and the American Defense Society...