Word: chambers
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...higher relief standards, Lasser and his Workers made their headline debut at Madison, Wis. last March. There soft-hearted Governor Philip La Follette welcomed them into the State House, provided them with food, advised them to "turn the heat" on the Legislature. After they had camped in the Senate chamber for ten days, Governor La Follette realized his mistake, had them turned...
...accounts of political exiles from Italy and Germany range from atrocity stories to philosophical discussions of dictatorship, seldom give concrete evidence of how Fascism makes its appearance on the plain streets of some familiar environment. Last week an ironic little volume by a onetime member of the Italian Chamber of Deputies gave U. S. readers a vivid, thought-provoking picture of the various ways native Sardinians-radicals, innocent bystanders, Fascists-reacted to the bewildering news of Mussolini's march on Rome on Oct. 30, 1922, changing sides at the last moment, heroically jumping before the steam roller...
...Government of shambling, whiskery Léon Blum had more than Bastille Day speeches for the French voters last week. In rapid succession it pushed through the Chamber of Deputies two bills destined to change drastically the face of French politics...
None of the 26 committeemen may serve more than three successive years. Baron Edouard de Rothschild for example, a Bank of France regent for a generation, may be re-elected after his next three years are up only by taking a year's holiday. Debate in the Chamber was remarkably brief. Opponents of the reform bill held up their hands in holy horror at what they called the growth of "Etatisme"-government-in-business, State Socialism, etc. etc. Cried a conservative Deputy...
Munitions: Next day the docile Chamber, wound up to do great deeds, tackled the nationalization of France's gigantic munitions' trust...