Word: chambers
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Instead the Premier agreed with the Wafd leader to call a Senate election this week. Senate and Chamber to assemble on the tenth day after Fuad's death to watch the opening of the envelope...
During the dry deliberations at the annual meeting of the American Newspaper Publishers' Association in Manhattan fortnight ago, two rival oases competed bitterly for the privilege of refreshing weary delegates. Not far from the door of the Waldorf Astoria's convention chamber, Scripps-Howard's Newspaper Enterprise Association lifted a banner to proclaim: "N. E. A.-WITH THE ONE & ONLY MAJOR HOOPLE!" Nearby, N. E. A.'s Hearstian arch-rival shrieked back in big black letters: "KING FEATURES- WITH THE ONE & ONLY GENE AHERN!" Purpose of the mammoth cocktail party whither this banner beckoned...
...occasion was the fourth annual convention of the U. S. Chamber of Commerce under the New Deal. Most of the delegates devoutly hoped it would be the last. In 1933 the Chambermen meekly accepted the President's personal proffer of a "partnership" between Government and Business. A year later they were already so scared by the implications of that partnership that President Roosevelt wrote a testy note telling them to stop crying "Wolf!" Last year he not only failed to send his greetings to the assembled Chambermen but conspicuously publicized his opinion that they no longer voiced the real...
Most memorable achievement of the convention last week , was the ingenuity displayed by speakers in saying the same thing in different ways over & over again. Even the theme of most speeches was a repetition of last year's convention. If the Chamber really represented U. S. Business, it looked as if U. S. Business was, for once, in complete harmony...
Actually that harmony was an illusion. The national Chamber was founded in 1912 under the benevolent eye of William Howard Taft for the express purpose of answering the old question: "What does business think?" The answer is that business seldom agrees on any but the broadest and vaguest questions. The legislative interests of one company, of one industry, may directly conflict with those of a dozen others. Lately the Chamber has been criticized for representing only small commercial enterprises. Only last month it was learned that the Automobile Manufacturers Association had transferred its allegiance from the Chamber to the more...