Word: rostrums
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...rostrum in the old papal courthouse where Italy's Chamber of Deputies fights its stormy battles had the broad, florid face of a peasant surmounted by a thatch of obstreperous, oiled-down red hair. But the voice that came out was the courtly, confident baritone of a man who, to the surprise of almost all concerned, has blossomed almost overnight into Italy's leading statesman. For two hours last week, Premier Giuseppe Pella ranged over Italy's relations with the rest of the world...
...customary fashion, France's Deputy Foreign Minister Maurice Schumann set out on an oratorical tour of the cold-war world one day last week from the rostrum of the United Nations General Assembly. Suddenly he put down for a surprise landing in Indo-China. Was it not possible, he asked, to negotiate an end to the seven-year-old Indo-China...
...always been in second place moved into first. As the red, green and white sash of the presidency was draped across his chest, observers noted that his hand moved gently across the silk and his deep-set brown eyes lit up. Then he stepped confidently to the rostrum and spoke words that soon wiped the big smile off the face of Miguel Alemán. "Government-protected monopolies must end," said the new President. "I will demand strict honesty from all. I will be inflexible with public officials who are not honest...
...three-man secretariat, modeled after the new Russian-type organization. Into his place as Premier stepped Imre Nagy, 57, a Moscow-trained Hungarian Communist of only slightly less experience. But the significant change was in policy, not in personnel. With a smiling Rakosi taking a back seat behind the rostrum, new Premier Nagy told a stunned Parliament of the changes that would be effected...
Speaker Joe Martin stepped down from the rostrum into the well of the House one afternoon last week to make one of his infrequent speeches. He urged his fellow Republicans to vote for the $4.9 billion foreign-aid bill approved by the House Foreign Affairs Committee. Martin said, with a glance toward his Midwestern colleagues, that he believes in economy but that some grave mistakes can be made in its name. Said he: "Security is more precious than dollars . . . Let us take the leadership that God has placed in our hands and use it wisely for the benefit of humanity...