Word: rostrums
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...important function of the American Iron & Steel Institute is grinding out publicity calculated to create good will for the steel industry. The Institute is somewhat handicapped by the fact that U. S. steelmen generally exhibit a singular lack of public-relations sense, particularly when they get anywhere near a rostrum. Nevertheless, the Institute's mimeographs continue to hum, last week turned out a batch of statistics showing that nine out of every ten steel executives rose from the ranks...
...cleverer politician ever mounted a rostrum than the first President of the Philippine Commonwealth. Most Mestizos (of mixed blood) are constitutionally gifted with political "it." But in the past 30 years Manuel Quezon has given his countrymen an exhibition of straddling, transference and political gymnastics which, if performed on horseback, would make him the wonder of the equestrian world...
...working officer who for years has been known to the Press as "Chief of the Troop Office." His name was General Ludwig Beck. In the first brief account of the ceremonies an official press release casually gave him his real title-"Chief of the General Staff." Stepping to the rostrum, Chief of Staff Beck told how it had been done...
...Murphy was there to ask the Federation to join the Legion (and the Daughters of the American Revolution) in a great nationwide Red-hunt. A number of radical labor delegates had absented themselves from the hall. Thirty others ostentatiously rose and walked out when Commander Murphy took the rostrum...
...Public Figure. In a speech before a Manhattan meeting of the American Management Association he took a bold grasp of a nettled question which few politicians-let alone the head of the biggest and most volatile U. S. stock exchange-would dare to handle on a public rostrum. Said...