Word: rostrums
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Senate, Senator Norris of Nebraska had the clerk on the rostrum read aloud a letter which, he said, he had received from Cross Roads, Tex. Excerpts...
...angry cries, then loud fervent exclamations rose in the Chamber of Deputies as peppery Socialist Edouard Barth took the rostrum and savagely exposed what he was pleased to call "the nefarious villainies of the French Anti-Alcoholic League...
Then, for the second time in the eight years he has been a Deputy, Dr. Alfred Hugenberg took the rostrum. Germany's potent "Little Man in Blue" was in blue serge as usual. He is the Hearst, Paramount & Famous Lasky Corp. and Associated Press of Germany, a magnat and monopolist of propaganda who has bought the leadership of the Nationalist Party (reactionary, monarchist...
...Battery to help the Army. She still actively bangs her tambourine in the corps of Yonkers, N. Y. To newsgatherers she related how her first U. S. convert was an unfortunate who, ejected from a saloon, had landed head down in an ash barrel. Peering over an improvised rostrum at a great throng she cried: "We began here 50 years ago, and always we'll go on. Hallelujah...
...Minister of Finance took orders from his chief by telephone, directed the government's defense. In the Chamber of Deputies, three times the Tardieu-Cheron forces beat off the opposition. The deputies prepared to vote on a measure to reduce the income tax for married women. On the rostrum Pudgy Minister Cheron raised his hand...