Word: chambers
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Oswaldo Aranha, who has a first-rate chance of being the next President of Brazil, President Roosevelt appeared before the Brazilian Congress. On the rostrum sat the President of the Brazilian Senate, flanked by the Chief Justice of the Brazilian Supreme Court and the President of the Chamber of Deputies. Below them sat the U. S. President in a grey suit flanked by U. S. Ambassador Hugh Gibson and Son James Roosevelt arrayed in the new white uniform of a Lieutenant-Colonel of Marines (Reserve). Then, after listening to a half-hour address of welcome, Franklin Roosevelt arose to deliver...
...Francisco, the Chamber of Commerce announced that the strike had crippled shipment of $75,000,000 worth of West Coast freight, was adding to that figure at the rate of $3,000,000 per day. Relief rolls were swelling, heavy construction being curtailed, perishable foods intended for export being dumped on local markets. San Francisco's Federation of Churches requested a day of "public and private prayers" for a strike settlement...
...ante), the alleged advice of Herr von Ribbentrop to Herr Hitler was really too much for them to stomach. In London last week being feted was Belgian Premier Professor Paul van Zeeland, and his English hosts had to do or say something. Up at an International Chamber of Commerce luncheon for Premier van Zeeland got handsome and willowy young Foreign Secretary Anthony Eden to utter words braver and bolder than he has ever used in the House of Commons or the Council of the League of Nations...
...Stradivarius Quartet, an admirable chamber music group, is to give a concert in the central court of Fogg Art Museum next Tuesday evening. Bach's Passacaglia in C minor, arranged by Alfred Pochon, Beethoven's Quartet in D major (Opus 18), and Haydn's Quartet in B flat major (Opus 64, No. 3) are to be performed. The San Carlo Opera Company is opening a week's engagement at the Opera House next Monday evening with "Carmen." "Aida" will be given the following night and the repertoire for the rest of the week includes "Lohengrin," "Madame Butterfly," "Rigoletto," "Faust...
...Prisoner Salengro organized an attempted revolt of 40 other French prisoners and for this got two years in one of the Fatherland's jails, which in France should be in his favor.* Enemies kept screaming that Salengro must be investigated by a Court of Honor but in the Chamber of Deputies fortnight ago, after a fisticuffing, shin-kicking fight, the Deputies voted 427-10-103 complete vindication of the Minister of Interior who was then & there embraced by Premier Blum. Both wept, apparently for joy. Why then did hard-boiled and triumphantly-vindicated Roger Salengro commit suicide last week...