Word: rostrums
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...that moment the conference saw a strange sight. Leaning on the arm of Viscount Curzon-was Captain Ian Fraser, a blinded young war veteran. Slowly the two moved through the 3,500 assembled Conservative delegatives to the rostrum. Then, standing sightless, Captain Fraser made a two minute speech in which he put forward a stirring plea for faith in young British womanhood...
President Edward Henry Harriman Simmons of the New York Stock Exchange appeared on the rostrum for the second time in ten days to declare a member expelled. This time it was G. B. Todd, sole floor representative of the firm of Gordon B. Todd & Co., who had violated two rules: 1) pledging more securities of certain customers than was fair in view of the customer's indebtedness to the firm; 2) failing to answer that part of the questionnaire regularly submitted by the Exchange to its members in which explanation is demanded of how the firm guards against just...
Gong. At 10:30 of a busy morning on the New York Stock Exchange a gong clanged. All operations were suspended. Busy traders left their posts. Telephone clerks removed the receivers of their instruments from the hooks. Telegraph operators stopped their ticking. All looked up at the rostrum. On the little balcony appeared the cold, scholarly figure of Stock Exchange President Edward Henry Harriman Simmons. Amid a hush he announced that Member Herman W. Booth was expelled from the roster of the Exchange for "conduct inconsistent with just and equitable principles of trade." It was the first expulsion since July...
...churches. There was not a word of the sermon which would not have been endorsed by all ministers. It was simply Christianity in spirit and in fact?and it was nothing else. . . . The groceryman and his four friends knew that they had made no mistake. . . . The minister left the rostrum through the arched way. . . . There was no effusive and perfunctory handshaking by an ap- pointed committee at the door . . . the people went out from the house of worship...
...Soon League officials persuaded the Swiss to desist. Prince Ossinski later spoke before the Conference, urging all nations to cancel their War debts, lower immigration barriers, and join with Soviet Russia in a program of universal disarmament. He spoke effectively, and some dozens of delegates crowded down near the rostrum, applauded...