Word: platforms
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Dates: during 1930-1930
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...Coolidge, America's leading private citizen. When Mr. Coolidge was introduced to the convention with the pronouncement that he would not make a speech, the convention cheered with loud yells for a speech for some five or six minutes. Finally Mr. Coolidge stepped to the front of the platform, raised his hand and said, "You can save time for this convention," etc. He got no further, and the applause and cheering continued for three or four minutes more, while he sat down...
President Hoover made the Legionaires a speech (see p. 14). Calvin Coolidge appeared on the platform and got a thunderous two-minute ovation. Insistent cries of "Speech! Speech!" brought him forward to say: "To save the time of the Convention I will address you in one sentence?You have paid your debt to La Fayette but you still owe a debt to yourselves and to the nation." President Hoover smiled. There was no Hoover-Coolidge hobnobbing. After the Legion speech he proceeded with traffic difficulty to the Hotel Statler where an adulant crowd hustled the President and Mrs. Hoover through...
...boarded it, rode along with the President where everybody could see him. At Bedford the train stopped again to take on Mrs. Hoover, fresh from a Girl Scout convention at Indianapolis (see col. 3). President Hoover took her in his arms, greeted her with a kiss on the rear platform...
...watch a heavy door open at one side of the corridor and nine elderly gentlemen in black robes file out and across and into another room. A moment later they emerged in a dim-lit semicircular room, took their places in nine black high-backed chairs on a raised platform. A handsome young man in a cutaway coat cried: "Oyez, oyez, oyez! All persons having business before the Honorable, the Supreme Court of the United States, are admonished to draw near and give their attention, for the Court is now sitting, God save the United States and this Honorable Court...
...soup course, with the high table still vacant of occupants, the diners were plunged into sudden darkness when the lights, which some few moments before had shown a slight uncertainty, went out. This apparently unforeseen failure of the electricity coincided with the entrance of President Lowell, who mounted the platform, a lighted candle in either hand. In another moment the lighting problem had been solved and into the once more gleaming dining room entered the associates of the House. Professor Coolidge the guests of honor, and in the rear, the members of the undergraduate committee. Dinner was then resumed...