Word: rostrums
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...will not lack material for oratory if he takes the rostrum on the anniversary of the Munich beer-hall Putsch this week...
Watson's endorsement caught Johnston in the middle of a speech to oilmen in Fort Worth. The U.S. Chamber of Commerce's slick young (46) president stepped off the rostrum, gave the press a statement : "I am not a candidate for any public office. I do not want to live at either end of Pennsylvania Avenue. I would rather live at either end of Main Street of any good American town...
...conference opened, Chairman Spangler made a drastic change in the scenery : a single pottery elephant, with drooping trunk, was removed from the stage, replaced by two elephants with heads and trunks suitably rampant. As the gavel fell, no one could doubt who was in charge. Chairman Spangler occupied the rostrum; Senators Vandenberg and Robert A. Taft sat front center. Swiftly Harrison Spangler entrusted the writing of the foreign and domestic statements to committees headed respectively by Senators Vandenberg and Taft, told them to go behind closed doors. The first session then ended...
Looking just about as active as it ever did is the Post-War Council. It has held one forum with Senator Pepper on the rostrum, and is planning several others, one for this week. Meanwhile, the language clubs have been going along pretty well; a new French club may be formed as a revolt against the exclusive, strictly French-speaking Cercle Francais...
This was hot news to Philadelphians, who have not had a gaudy mayor for four years, not since the late Samuel Davis Wilson, who carried around a little rostrum which he would solemnly place on the speaker's table. When he flicked a switch, neon letters flared: "S. Davis Wilson, Mayor...