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Jose Ortega y Gasset, Spanish philosopher, theosophist and delegate to the Cortes of Spain, stood last week in a rostrum that has not been used for eight years...
...Cheer for Briand but Vote for Doumer." The Salle du Congrés, where Chamber and Senate met last week as the National Assembly, is shaped like an oblong box, the rostrum being at the centre of one of the longer sides. Behind the rostrum is a stately backdrop for the show, a wall against which brown columns stand like sentinels with ornate Corinthian caps. Around the other three sides of the room galleries rise tier on tier. A magnet for every eye is the great green-&-gold Voting Urn. As everyone knows, Aristide Briand, twelve times Prime Minister...
While the President of the Chamber jangled his big brass dinner bell for order, Aristide Briand climbed into the rostrum to reply. Scarcely glancing at the red leather portfolio of notes before him, Br'er Briand, calm, self-assured, talked for an hour and 45 minutes. He reviewed his entire career as Foreign Minister, he claimed full support for all his acts from the two most potent French politicians, Raymond Poincaré and Andre Tardieu. He ended with a burst of brilliant Briandism...
Seven minutes after Delivery Time, the visitor and his host from Pynchon & Co. were startled by the great electric gong which calls the Exchange to order. They saw Vice President Allen Ledyard Lindley standing on the Rostrum, grave and silent. The hum of trading dwindled to awful silence. A moment later the ticker flashed to the ends of the country the message: PYNCHON & CO SUSPENDED FOR INSOLVENCY...
West 6 Co. Three days after the Pynchon failure, there was another announcement from the President's Rostrum. West & Co., a member of the New York Stock Exchange with its main office in Philadelphia, was suspended for insolvency. Although West & Co. was not considered a major firm, it was well-entrenched in Pennsylvania with offices in nine cities. The firm had been interested in several of the same amusement and utility shares whose decline previously embarrassed Pynchon, hence its difficulties were easy to explain...