Word: chambers
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Thus with a choke in his voice, pallid-faced and flabby-fingered Dr. Alfred Rosenberg, "The Great Ideologist of the Nazi Party,'' opened last week in the National Socialist Cultural Chamber at Berlin what he called "War Literature Week" as the host of 60 German authors who have written pro-War books since 1918. Not one of the 60 has a name outside Germany. All world-famed German authors of the post-War generation have been men like Erich Maria Remarque whose All Quiet on the Western Front the Nazis think fit only for bonfires. Samples...
Making himself the subject of deathly experiment is his specialty. To show that men have more stamina than dogs, he remained in a chamber filled with hydrocyanic acid gas until a dog died, then walked out with the creature in his arms...
...took certain samples of my own breath in the chamber at intervals, a process which required some nicety of manipulation, the correct turning of taps and so forth. The analyses proved that there had been errors of manipulation in the last two samples. Now the interesting point is not that these errors occurred, though that is quite significant, but that I could have gone into a court of law and sworn that one at least of the two was correctly taken. On the occasion on which we had been in 10% carbon dioxide, when I came out I was retaining...
...three days and nights of aggressive debate, the Senate and Chamber of France finally authorized the radical Cabinet of Premier Leon Blum to reduce the value of the French franc 30% last week, but at every stage of the debate Socialist Blum was served notice that Parliament had given him no monetary free hand such as the U. S. Congress gave President Roosevelt at the time the dollar was devalued (TIME...
With scowls spreading on Communist faces, Premier Blum finally reached for a scrap of paper, wrote on it that his Cabinet would drop the proletariat-pampering clause, and passed it to M. Reynaud There was much bouncing of the bill back and forth between Chamber and Senate but the final result was straight defeat of the Communists and refusal by Parliament to place in Socialist Blum's hands any wide financial powers. His prestige suffered sorely. Once he bleated, "I know that I am not a weak man and that I do not lack courage." He was bolstered...