Word: rostrums
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Beer himself, however, spoke at a rally for Stevenson in Medford last night on the same rostrum with Adlai's son, Adlai E. Jr. 2L. The campaign for Stevenson was conducted by State Senator Maurice A. Donahue (D-Holyoke...
When Kefauver entered the council meeting shortly after noon, he got a polite, 48-second greeting. As he stepped to the rostrum, he sized up the situation, abandoned his prepared text, and took off in sweeping, ad-libbed generalizations. When Stevenson walked into the hall some three hours later, he got a noisy, 3½-minute ovation, complete with banners, placards, pictures, campaign hats, bells and horns. He stayed close to his prepared text, which he read in his light, professorial style...
...British, a fault which Hastings, for all his love of Irish butter, didn't have. Indeed, from 1771 on, the Gambrel-roofed house had rung with patriotic oratory, as members of the Speakers' Club, flanked by six candles and using a piece of two by four as a rostrum, declaimed weekly against the British...
Crowning a Winner. Later that day, a mass of 200.000 Indians squatted on the ground while Nehru and his Russian guests appeared on a rostrum built in the shape of a white pagoda. To great cheers the Russians raised Nehru's arm in the manner of a referee crowning a winner. A choir of schoolchildren sang Indians and Russians Are Brothers, written especially for the occasion. From the balcony, Nikolai Bulganin praised the "five principles of coexistence" agreed upon by Nehru and Red China's Chou Enlai. "We are allies in a great struggle for peace throughout...
...issue was settled in the corridors, not on the rostrum. Next morning, after a few short speeches, the Assembly went straight to the vote. Government aides sprang to their telephones in a wild effort to rally Faure's supporters. The opposition did likewise. Ailing Communist Chief Maurice Thorez, making his first appearance since he suffered a stroke in 1950, limped in on a cane to cast a vote against Faure. But the dominant fact of the present Assembly is that it fears a return to power by Pierre Mendès-France more than it dislikes Edgar Faure...