Word: chambered
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Chestertown Chamber of Commerce meets in one of the few air-conditioned rooms in town, a large, nicely furnished place on the second floor of the bank here. Most of its members are professional men who arrive promptly for meetings, dispatch their business efficiently and return to their comfortable suburban homes. Just now, the Commerce's main item of business is the publication of a small brochure describing the placid luxuriousness of life here in Kent County...
...town's Negro leaders, for example, the recommended to the City Council that a bi-racial council be established to discuss possibilities for fuller Negro employment. The suggestion had a double edged safeguard. If the City Council were rash enough to act upon it--which seemed to the Chamber highly unlikely--the Council would be a do-nothing organization, composed of Negro Uncle Toms and white conservatives...
...sending along this recommendation, the Chamber was able to get the problem of integration off its books, and move along to more pressing affairs. None of its members-believe that integration is an important question, for none can apply the concept of community responsibility to the "colored folk" in town. If Negro housing threatens the health of all of Chestertown's citizens, for example, it is still up to the Negro to improve his conditions: "You have your own grey ladies at the hospital. Why can't they do something to teach your people proper hygiene?" It is useless...
...Rome's handsome, half-moon-shaped Chamber of Deputies last week, everyone had to move literally to the right to make room for the 166 newly elected Communists, a 20% increase over their previous showing. The Reds promptly made their power felt in the balloting for presiding officers: for the first time in history, a woman, Maria Lisa Rodano, 42, was elected Chamber vice president. She is a Communist who insists she is a Roman Catholic as well and attends Mass on Sundays. Red Boss Palmiro Togliatti's cocky demand that Communists be admitted to the government...
...stake were 144 seats for a House of Representatives, the first freely elected chamber since Morocco won independence from France seven years ago, and the field was wide open. Hassan's major opposition parties, the nationalist Istiqlal and the leftist National Union of Popular Forces, were out in strength, and even the Communist Party-officially outlawed but quietly tolerated-fielded three candidates. Opposition newspapers circulated freely, and one prominent politician got away with calling the King a liar...