Word: standing
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Presidential press conferences are usually a bore. What happens is that a group of 100 or more reporters gather in the White House press room, stand around chatting with each other until thoroughly exhausted. Thus reduced to a state of total psychic subservience, they are ushered into Franklin Roosevelt's private sanctum. Here the President, comfortably tucked in under a massive desk and surrounded by a background of secretaries and Secret Service men, sits flourishing his cigaret holder. The correspondents gather closely around the front of the desk trying politely to look as though all this were a marvel...
...Before the second roll call, Uncle Joe Cannon went to her side, begged her, as the Representative of U. S. womanhood, to cast her decision one way or the other. On the second roll call, Representative Rankin, with tears in her eyes, stood up to say: "I want to stand by my country but I cannot vote for War. I vote...
...committee will present the Neutrality point of view to the campus, and will attempt to persuade the Union to change his stand on peace...
Three authorities on building conditions will give a talk under the auspices of the Student Union tonight at 8:00 o'clock in Emerson D on "How Does Boston Stand on Housing Legislation...
However the Massachusetts Teachers' Union and the Society for Freedom in Teaching will attempt to bring the issue into public attention by forcing the Governor to take his stand once again. In the event of failure in this session they assert that the item will be of considerable importance in the elections for State positions in November...