Word: chambers
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Five major bills were voted by the Chamber in two exhausting sessions by such colossal majorities as 528-to-7 and 563-to-1. A stand was made by Capital against Labor only on the most drastic measure, that intended to make 40 hours the maximum working week hereafter in French industry. Standard in France since 1919 has been the 48-hour week. The 40-hour week passed the Chamber last week 385-to-175, went to the Senate along with the four other bills which seek to compel two-week vacations with pay for all French workers, collective labor...
Since the French Senate consists mostly of wealthy greybeards, their rage at being sent five such bills by the Chamber of Deputies showed itself in rudeness to whomever they could snub. Normally a Premier entering the Senate through its lobby is handshaken by dozens of greybeards. Last week Senators pointedly cut M. Blum, greeted in silence his appeals to pass the bills, refused so much as to debate them until the following week...
...Chamber, Senate or Cabinet with hats on or with hats off was the dilemma last week of three good and even great women, the first of their sex ever appointed to a French Cabinet (TIME, June 15). Sensibly they conferred. In the United Kingdom, they know, female members of the Mother of Parliaments, such as Lady Astor, sit in hats. Last week, however, buxom and expensively dressed Undersecretary for National Education Cécile Léon Brunschvicg; drawn-faced and thrifty Undersecretary for Scientific Research Iréne Curie-Joliot; and sweetly garrulous Undersecretary for Child Welfare Suzanne Lacore...
...rather be governed by a man of their own sturdy race than by a great intelligence which has been nurtured on the Talmud!" Other deputies not of the Left proceeded to chime in and soon new Premier Leon Blum had become so embarrassed that he withdrew briefly from the Chamber while gentile Edouard Herriot bellowed at the top of his great voice: "There are no Jews here, no Protestants, no Catholics-but only Frenchmen...
Since everyone knew that votes and not Jew-baiting alone counted, the Chamber settled down and ultimately voted confidence 384-to-210 in the new Cabinet. This powerful support was given Premier Blum after he had in effect handed the Deputies a sheaf of Socialist Ten Commandments. Specifically the Chamber and Senate were notified that the Blum Cabinet intends to keep them in session until they have enacted: 1) Nationalization of French war industries; 2) the 40-hour week for all French workers; 3) the right of Collective Contract for workers bargaining with their employers; 4) compulsory annual vacations with...