Word: speaker
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Statesmen. The hard core of the opposition stayed drunk for three full days. Purpose of this blueprinted binge was not escape, but sabotage of the hated measure (a mild bill for government control of Japan's coal mines). When the Speaker called for a preliminary vote, alcoholic catcalls greeted him. Then surow mow (slow motion) set in. Opposition members slowly sauntered to the ballot box. One of them, loudly complaining of an injured leg, took two minutes to climb the six-step rostrum to the ballot box. Others, magnificently squiffed, zigzagged through the chamber, stopped to chat with friends...
...When Speaker Komakichi Matsuoka cried: "Speed it up," an irate representative staggered toward the rostrum, grabbed the chief Diet guard by the necktie and .slapped him over the head. The lawmaker was ejected...
...scholarly Liberal slowly recited Hamlet's "To be or not to be" in Japanese as he stood poised over the ballot box, waving a yes ballot and a no ballot in either hand. A wild fist-swinging melee began when opposition shock troops tried to rush the Speaker's rostrum...
Auden, who will discuss "The Ironic Hero," is the last speaker in a symposium which has included novelist Ralph Bates, musicologist Adololfo Salazar, and Harry Levin '33, associate professor of English...
...plumped for an import tax on copper, fought against Boulder Dam because he thought it discriminated against Arizona water interests. He won his reputation as a determined foe of Government spending. A nominal Democrat, he often hurdled party lines to vote with the G.O.P., tangled violently with tough old Speaker Jack Garner...