Word: chambers
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...facts about Kansas. Most fun was had by Joe McDonald of Kansas City, blond, high-spirited Democratic leader of the Senate who lately journeyed to Washington to be coached for this occasion by shrewd Democratic Press agent Charles ("Smear Hoover") Michelson. Roaring with laughter and shouting across the chamber as he made his points, Senator McDonald gleefully recalled Nominee Landon's message to the Republican Convention proposing extension of Federal civil service...
...Arizona State Prison at Phoenix last week, for murdering a fellow cowboy, Frank Rascon was led into an airtight chamber, executed by cyanide gas. When the corpse was carried out, his widow embraced it, kissed the face and lips. Few hours later Mrs. Frank Rascon was hospitalized, seriously ill with cyanide poisoning...
...reluctantly admitted Minister of the Interior Roger Salengro after the French Senate had threatened a vote of no-confidence if it were "Yes." The answer was "Yes," indignantly replied Communist Leader Maurice Thorez, whose 72 votes are indispensable to Premier Blum's coalition majority in the Chamber of Deputies. Said Irish-faced M. Thorez: "M. Salengro was not well inspired in letting it be believed that force can be employed against the working class...
Many a bourgeois Frenchman's fear that his new Government is far too chummy with Red Russia was voiced last week in the Chamber of Deputies when Deputy Henri de Kerillis accused Air Minister Pierre Cot of having given to Soviet Russia a priceless French secret: a model and blueprints for the 23-mm. machine gun with which France's huge "airfortress" planes are to be armed. This airplane "cannon," screamed Deputy de Kerillis, is the sole superiority France has over its potential enemies in the air. Scrappy, bespectacled Air Minister Cot replied that nations allied in pacts...
After thumbing his Nazi nose in the council chamber of the League of Nations and insultingly abusing League High Commissioner for Danzig Sean Lester, blustering President Arthur Greiser of the Senate of the Free City of Danzig arrived home by way of Berlin last week boasting: "Germany stands behind...