Word: chambers
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...first light of a cloudless dawn last week France's first Socialist-dominated Chamber of Deputies adjourned with an all-time record of 65 "economically revolutionary" bills passed in ten weeks. Cried weary, wispy Premier Leon Blum to the Deputies: "The greatest social movement since the foundation of the Third Republic has been accomplished without any shedding of blood but by persuasion only...
Without shedding blood the Chamber had passed into law most of the Popular Front platform: 1) nationalization of munitions factories, 2) the 40-hour week, 3). collective bargaining between employers and trade unions, 4) vacations with pay, 5) co-operatives to handle French peasants' wheat and fix its price, 6) forced retirement at an earlier age of France's whiskered, fusty reactionary bureaucrats and 7) partial nationalization of the Bank of France, founded by the great Napoleon...
Early in 1903 the organization that later became Birmingham's Chamber of Commerce met for luncheon to decide what sort of exhibit the Pittsburgh of the South should send to the Louisiana Purchase Exhibition at St. Louis. Secretary James Arthur MacKnight had an idea: Birmingham was famed for its iron foundries. Why not a huge statue of Vulcan, something to hold its own with New York's Statue of Liberty, but made from Alabama cast iron...
...German professors to lecture to him several times a week?" Italy has slashed her railway and hotel rates so deeply for tourists that they are partial gifts. Last week, with King Edward and the British Prime Minister both canceling their scheduled vacation trips to France (see p. 21), the Chamber of Deputies in Paris was in a mood to hear what is the matter with France as a tourists' paradise. Primed to tell them with authority was Deputy Gaston-Gérard who spent several frustrated years as Undersecretary of State for Tourism...
...cash. Mr. Annenberg had both. Forthwith he sent one of the five Annenberg sons-in-law to Paris to dicker with the Inquirer's socialite owners, Mme Eleanore Elverson Paternõtre and her sleek son Raymond, onetime Undersecretary of State for National Economy, member of the Chamber of Deputies and publisher of the Paris Petit Journal. Last week the deal went through. From his modest Manhattan offices, Purchaser Annenberg announced that he was taking over active control of the Inquirer at once, that he had no backers, that the Inquirer would continue a stanch Republican sheet...