Word: chambers
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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When Franklin Roosevelt entered on his son's arm the crowded chamber rose and applauded not only the President of the U. S. but a conquering hero...
That his conscience bothered him for using it was apparent when 1,000 of the students came slipping and sliding and shouting down the hill to the Capitol, interrupted him in press conference, made him face them in the Assembly Chamber...
...second concert in the Hotel Vendome by the Flute Players Club will be held on Sunday afternoon. This chamber music group is offering a most intersting program in which Casadesus, the Fresh pianist, is to be soloist.SHAN-KAR Art of the Orient...
...prevent the other from hasty action. Unicameralists insist that an extra house is no check whatever on anything except efficient legislation. They claim further that one house will reduce legislative buck-passing: what the legislators vote for becomes law, barring veto by the Governor. Although bicameralists argue that one chamber will be easier to corrupt than two, unicameralists expect exactly the opposite because the legislators cannot dodge responsibility, because being relatively few in number their individual acts will be in the limelight...
...show a financial saving. For although with 43 members dividing the annual salary appropriation in shares of $872.09 (roughly twice as much as before), the total salary bill will be reduced about 30%, not counting the savings in salaries for clerks, pages, doorkeepers, etc., etc. of a discontinued chamber. The savings in postage, printing and mileage should be even greater. As an offset to these savings, the Senate chamber with its $4,500 bronze doors in the $10,000,000 State Capitol, which the late Bertram Goodhue designed, will have no real use, and to reduce the 100 desks...