Word: chambers
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Constitution. Chief battler for the "Richest Man in the World" is fox-bearded, gimlet-eyed Sir Akbar Hydari whose importance far eclipses his modest title of Finance and Railway Member of the State Executive Council of Hyderabad (see cut, p. 22). It was he who so stirred up the Chamber of Princes that eventually the British Raj, which when Lord Curzon was Viceroy acquired Berar from Hyderabad, was constrained to agree that Berar "has always belonged" and should now be returned to Hyderabad. Thus appeased, the Nizam of Hyderabad may well be the first 21-gun Indian potentate to sign...
...search for Marxian measures in the acts of the New Deal bears no fruit. Just where are these ghastly deeds which made Al Smith choose between Washington and Moscow last week? Surely not the N.R.A., which was not only drawn up by the Chamber of Commerce and big business, but by any standard of judgement must be pronounced Fascist rather than Communist. The Republicans are walking on equally thin ice when they attack the the A.A.A. For if what Governor Landon is promising is not an A.A.A., it is a reasonably exact facsimile. The "class hatred" bogey has been used...
...Finance Minister then read from a separate sheet a statement of what the Blum Cabinet would ask the Chamber and Senate to do with the franc, namely reduce its gold content from that of 65½ milligrams of nine-tenths fineness to a value controlled between 49 and 43 milligrams by a French Treasury stabilization fund of 10,000,000,000 francs in conjunction with the U. S. Treasury and the British Exchequer. In plain English the tourist who has been getting about 15½ francs for his dollar in Paris will get about 21½ francs...
...Straus, who was born in 1872, served on the Board of Overseers, was president of R. H. Macy & Co. of New York, director of the New York Life Insurance Company, vice-president of the New York Chamber of Commerce, trustee of the Bowery Savings Bank, and a member of the Democratic Party...
...work of the Tercentenary chorus, manned by undergraduates and graduate members of the Glee Club, and assisted by the Radcliffe chorus was also praised, as well as the performance of the Boston String Quarter who played compositions of Harvard graduates in three concerts of chamber music...