Word: chambers
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...books and events. Here is Amy Lowell joining the guests at her table after the roast has been removed and, despite having two plates of soup, catching up with them before the meal is over. Here is Amy Lowell, self-described, at an Advocate smoker, "smuggled into an upper chamber, and kept quiet with cigars while they heckled me in true undergraduate fashion. I think I held my own; I tried to." We may be sure that she did. Here is the sincerity, the generosity, the fearlessness, the humor, and the irrepressible love of fun that made Amy Lowell what...
...scarehead: MOSCOW ORDERS REDS IN U. S. TO BACK ROOSEVELT. Featured in the GOPress was the resignation of James Casey as managing editor of Manhattan's Communist Daily Worker because of his disgust with "candidates who speak in the open for Earl Browder and then confer at closed chamber sessions for the election of Roosevelt...
...preaching team arc such pious notables as Mrs. Harper Sibley, wife of the president of the U. S. Chamber of Commerce; Francis Bowes Sayre. Assistant Secretary of State, and Woodrow Wilson's son-in-law; Dr. T. Z. Koo. a leader of Christian youth activities in China. The eleven Bishops of the Team included Episcopal Archbishop Cecil C. Quainton of Victoria, B. C., Methodist Bishop Ralph Spalding Cushman of the Denver area. Episcopal Bishop James Edward Freeman of Washington. A Team member who was to preach in Pittsburgh last week was Manhattan's Presbyterian Dr. Edmund Bigelow Chaffee...
Last week, 188 years too late to be original but still new enough to be of interest to most San Franciscans, the wholesale poultry store of Corriea Bros, was flamboyantly advertising ELECTROCUTED POULTRY. In their execution chamber a short endless belt conveyor moves alongside a longer conveyor which carries the fowl, fastened by the feet. In the Cornea store an attendant fastens the bird's head into a clamp from the short, inside belt. About a foot farther on, a lever is pressed down, completing an electrical circuit. Some 1,000 to 1,500 volts, depending on the size...
Another campaign to sell Business as an institution is being run in newspapers by Nation's Business, houseorgan of the U. S. Chamber of Commerce. The current number in the series describes management as the "nation's most important resource," managers as today's "forgotten men." Reads the copy: "Isn't it time to quit talking about this land of ours as if it were split into hard and fast classes, and to think of it for what it really is, the greatest spot on the globe, if not the only one. where classes...