Word: rostrums
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...recent years, the CRIMSON has undertaken to assist in this task of liaison between the administration and the student body. But there is present in this role the danger of confusing the acts of the right hand with those of the left: the left passes down from the rostrum the official advice about undergraduate activities; the right ventures to deliver to the rostrum undergraduate criticisms of the conduct of one part of the University or another. Several of the articles in the series on concentration seem ignorant of their proper role. They endeavor to hand on the freshman a representation...
When the new House meets, the formality of electing its Speaker will occur. New York's Republican Snell will get about 117 votes. With 313 votes Democrat Rainey will be elevated to the rostrum to take legislative command of the New Deal...
Against such massed strength the Mc-Duffie ticket was helpless. Representative Rainey went up, 166 to 112, for Speaker, with other "deal" candidates winning handily. The vote sent glimmering Vice President Garner's aspiration to run the House from the Senate rostrum. In his place the House Democrats had picked an oldster of 28 years service, a lawyer-turned-farmer, a low-tariff sales-taxer, a radical of yesterday with whose advanced ideas the country is just catching...
...York's' Celler amending the Volstead Act so that physicians may prescribe medicinal liquor and beer without quantitative restrictions; sent it to the Senate. During the debate Texas' Blanton pointed out that the temporary presiding officer, Maryland's Palmisano, was a onetime bartender. Quitting the rostrum Representative Palmisano retorted: "I've never denied it. That's why I'm against Prohibition...
...filibuster against Repeal. In slow measured words Senator Sheppard recited the decade's doings at Geneva. Monotonously he read from old documents. Slowly he meandered down long columns of figures. His dronings drove Senators from the chamber, left Vice President Curtis suffering silently and alone on the rostrum. Tourists in the gallery gaped down at the spectacle of one little Dry defying the U. S. electorate...