Word: rostrums
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Concluding the speaking, Coach Dick Harlow took the rostrum and, after praising the work of the Varsity, said his hopes for a winning team next year needed no firmer foundation than that offered by the quality of the present squad...
...House a fine new green carpet had been laid. Potted palms and photographers' lights were rigged around the rostrum. The hands of the clock (substituted for those stolen last summer) stood erect at 12 when gaunt, bushy-browed Speaker Byrns, a pink carnation in his lapel, whammed down his gavel, brought 366 magpie Members of the House to comparatively silent order. Democratic Floor Leader William Brockman ("Tallulah's Father") Bankhead, ill throughout the last session, uprose to request unanimous consent for the House to recess subject to the call of the Speaker so that President Roosevelt might deliver...
...good-natured few willing to listen to "The Man" Bilbo expatiate on his "Dream House" in Mississippi. With the introduction of just one bill, the Pittman Neutrality measure, the Senate decorously ended its first session. That Evening the President appeared promptly behind the lectern of the Speaker's rostrum. Police and Secret Servants had checked " double-checked invitations and guests as they had arrived. Mrs. Roosevelt and the Boettigers were snug in the executive gallery. The diplomatic corps was notably minus the Japanese and Italian envoys...
Germany. Adolf Hitler cut loose with the whole German Press in fighting acknowledgment that the President's shoe pinches Germany. Sneered the Berliner Tageblat:. "That such commonplaces should be uttered from so exalted a rostrum!" Snapped the Frankfurter Zeitung: "The United States is merging more & more into a politico-moral autarchy which would probably be justified if it were living on a remote and self-sufficient island." The German Foreign Office's semi-official Diplomatische Korrespondenz noted the President's "egoistic wish to avoid any participation...
...their French opponents, captained by Baron Robert de Nexon, into two cubicles at one end of the Garden. At the other end, on a huge platform, sandwich men lined up to represent the hands as dealt to the players. They walked to the centre of the rostrum, dropped their signs as the corresponding cards were played. Only defect in this unique spectacle, from the point of view of Promoter Jacobs, was the number of spectators who watched the Four Aces win by a final score of 97,250-94,440. Of the 800 on hand not more than half...