Word: chambered
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Down with Duds. In 1919, Virginia-born Nancy Astor became the first woman ever to sit in Britain's House of Commons. She shocked that hallowed chamber by describing her entrance into politics as "this downward career from home to House." Like many another politician, Winston Churchill refused to speak to the female fellow M.P. for several years, explained later that her presence in the traditionally male sanctum made him feel "as if a woman had come into my bathroom and I had only the sponge to defend myself." Retorted Lady Astor: "You are not handsome enough to have...
...Attitude. Above and beyond all this spring growth was the warm breeze from Washington. The President of the U.S. went before the annual meeting of the U.S. Chamber of Commerce (see THE NATION) and spent a chatty hour appealing for an end to suspicion and distrust between Government and business. After the speech, Harvey Aluminum President Lawrence Harvey said: "This signals a new attitude on the part of bureaucrats-business is your friend, work with it." Businessmen believe that Johnson thinks the way they think, point out that he is the first President since Herbert Hoover to have had successful...
...Accountant's Memory. The President has an accountant's memory for economic statistics, and he delights in exploiting the bullish ones in his speeches in a way that puts them onto Page One almost every day. In his speech to the Chamber of Commerce, he managed to mention 50 different statistics. Armed with figures on profits and take-home pay, Johnson has been using every possible chance to campaign against price and wage rises-gently warning businessmen that if inflation comes to eat away prosperity, they will have only themselves to blame...
...when it came to the wage rises he favors-for the men and women in the middle and upper reaches of Government-he took his case straight to the businessmen. He urged the Chamber of Commerce to support a federal pay raise bill-and put the request, as usual, in terms that any businessman could understand. "The middle level positions," said Johnson, "pay less than half the comparable scales of business and industry." Then he drove the point home by announcing that "one of the great economic advisers"-Walter Heller-was planning to quit the Government because his fixed salary...
Last week this widespread and growing belief got its most dramatic play to date in an unprecedented resolution adopted by the annual meeting of the U.S. Chamber of Commerce in Washington. With only a handful of the 3,800 delegates muttering disapproval, that normally conservative body urged the Government to pull down its barriers against the export of nonstrategic goods to the Soviet Union and its European satellites. Such controls, said the Chamber, "are not necessary for the security of the U.S. and result in discrimination harmful to its competitive position...