Word: rostrums
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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While the President of the Chamber jangled his big brass dinner bell for order, Aristide Briand climbed into the rostrum to reply. Scarcely glancing at the red leather portfolio of notes before him, Br'er Briand, calm, self-assured, talked for an hour and 45 minutes. He reviewed his entire career as Foreign Minister, he claimed full support for all his acts from the two most potent French politicians, Raymond Poincaré and Andre Tardieu. He ended with a burst of brilliant Briandism...
...usual sights. That crowd of brokers, he explained, was dealing in United States Steel; the Big Board with its continuously flapping little number cards was the method by which brokers are called to the telephone; the little gallery below the Board was known as the President's Rostrum; that day the president, Richard Whitney, was in Philadelphia making a speech on "Business Honesty," but few visitors ever see the president for only on the most important occasions does he take the Rostrum during trading...
Seven minutes after Delivery Time, the visitor and his host from Pynchon & Co. were startled by the great electric gong which calls the Exchange to order. They saw Vice President Allen Ledyard Lindley standing on the Rostrum, grave and silent. The hum of trading dwindled to awful silence. A moment later the ticker flashed to the ends of the country the message: PYNCHON & CO SUSPENDED FOR INSOLVENCY...
West 6 Co. Three days after the Pynchon failure, there was another announcement from the President's Rostrum. West & Co., a member of the New York Stock Exchange with its main office in Philadelphia, was suspended for insolvency. Although West & Co. was not considered a major firm, it was well-entrenched in Pennsylvania with offices in nine cities. The firm had been interested in several of the same amusement and utility shares whose decline previously embarrassed Pynchon, hence its difficulties were easy to explain...
...such a pleasant smiling way that there was little resentment. Behind him he always had a healthy House majority which afforded him his opportunity to build up the "lower'' chamber's recent reputation for smooth, efficient legislating. No White House tool, he deserted the rostrum to fight and defeat President Coolidge on the 1929 Navy building program, President Hoover on the Soldier Bonus Loan. (This latter activity was chiefly motivated by the menacing hostility of Cincinnati Veterans, which almost cost Longworth his seat last year...