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...usual sights. That crowd of brokers, he explained, was dealing in United States Steel; the Big Board with its continuously flapping little number cards was the method by which brokers are called to the telephone; the little gallery below the Board was known as the President's Rostrum; that day the president, Richard Whitney, was in Philadelphia making a speech on "Business Honesty," but few visitors ever see the president for only on the most important occasions does he take the Rostrum during trading...
...Perhaps this is the last time I will address you from this rostrum. [Laughter and applause.] I don't mean to insinuate that I regard it as a probability, but I must admit it is a possibility. The decision lies with none of us here. It is a decision that lies with an all-wise Providence. . . . With whatever Providence may decree, I am abundantly satisfied." [Applause...
...such a pleasant smiling way that there was little resentment. Behind him he always had a healthy House majority which afforded him his opportunity to build up the "lower'' chamber's recent reputation for smooth, efficient legislating. No White House tool, he deserted the rostrum to fight and defeat President Coolidge on the 1929 Navy building program, President Hoover on the Soldier Bonus Loan. (This latter activity was chiefly motivated by the menacing hostility of Cincinnati Veterans, which almost cost Longworth his seat last year...
...Roman knows, Benito Mussolini has two faces, the scowling imperial mask which II Duce wears on every public appearance before his countrymen, and the unassuming, jovial expression with which he welcomes foreign visitors who need no intimidation. With a nice blend of the two expressions II Duce mounted a rostrum in Rome last week to open the International Grain Conference, a meeting attended by delegates of 46 wheat-growing nations. He scowled slightly because he knew that his photograph and his words would be reported in every Italian newspaper. He smiled often, avoided dogmatism, because he realized that...
...last decade the mind of skeptical youth has indulged itself in a period of criticism of the old order, of challenge, of destruction of apparently valueless tradition. It has sought from the rostrum of the lecture-hall and from the pulpit something solid and of enduring value. It has sought to free itself from the clutches of pure sentimentality and heroics. And now the new decade is destined to build a finer educational and ethical structure upon the sturdy foundations from which has been removed the incubus of the inglorious edifice inherited from our elders. The destructive criticism...