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While casting this season in the fast waters of the New York Stock Exchange, Fisherman LaBranche hooked himself badly. From the rostrum of the Exchange it was announced last week that George Michel Lucien LaBranche had been suspended for two years "for conduct or proceedings inconsistent with just and equitable principles of trade...
...Legion gave him an uproariously warm welcome. Donning an overseas cap to show his membership in the organization, he stepped up amid a cyclone of cheers to the same Stadium rostrum where 15 months prior he had accepted the Presidential nomination. His easy manner, his smiling charm softened his sternest critic in an audience of 30,000. He drew loud laughter when he interjected: "My, you're a young looking bunch.'' National credit based on national unity was the theme of his speech. In defense of his pension cuts he declared...
...August, Miner Lewis dominated the scene. Before a packed auditorium a Deputy NRAdministrator sang out: "We will now hear from the president of the United Mine Workers of America." Lewis, John L. Everyone in the hall knew the squat, bullnecked, heavy-pawed figure that swaggered out to the rostrum. There was a glint of arrogance in his grey eyes. He jutted his heavy jaw. Dramatically he introduced himself in the idiom of the true labor leader: "The name is Lewis-John L." When the titters had died away Lewis, John L. began to read in a surprisingly soft, resonant voice...
Chancellor Dollfuss approached the British and French Legations, asked them to withdraw the note. They refused. Promptly he summoned Parliament to extraordinary session, invited the foreign Press, read the entire secret ultimatum, and slapped it down on the rostrum in front of him with the statement that Austria, a sovereign nation, does not answer such notes at all. Four months later Engelbert Dollfuss was in Britain, a darling of the British Press & public during the World Economic Conference. But in the meantime the world had awakened to the folly and menace of Hitlerism. Today no one can pluck the capercailzie...
...however, presumptuous to suppose that a puff of enthusiasm from the rostrum would be enough to hold a student's interest. It will only be when both the teacher and the taught recognize the newness of each topic to the student that an academic millennium will be attained. By that time, both may be sliding together...