Word: chambers
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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From the book shelves which line the walls of his chamber in the new Supreme Court Building, Associate Justice Willis Van Devanter last week flipped out a volume, leafed it carefully. With his facts straight, he faced a newshawk, declared...
Harper Sibley, President of the United States Chamber of Commerce, for the "Government and Industry" table; Joseph B. Eastman, Federal Coordinator of Railroads, also for the "Government and Industry" table; and Thomas C. Woodard, Peoples Council for the Guffey Coal Administration, for the same table...
...players, singers, composers, teachers, librarians, copyists, arrangers, tuners, music-binders from non-musical relief jobs. "Hundreds of musicians," reported Director Sokoloff, "came with swollen, calloused fingers, with their lips stiff and chapped from unaccustomed toil in inclement weather." Since December WPA had formed 163 concert orchestras, 51 bands, 15 chamber-music ensembles, 22 choruses and quartets, 69 dance orchestras...
...London a procedure for dealing firmly with Germany's violation had just made its appearance in the form of a British White Paper (TIME, March 30). Returning from London to Brussels Premier Paul van Zeeland rose in the Belgian Chamber. "For the first time in history the British Government has defined in advance the course it would take in a given emergency," he cried. ''This unprecedented step was due to the fact that Belgium has so clearly given [Germany] no excuse for breaking the Locarno Treaty...
...Chamber of Deputies was "abolished" once & for all last week, according to Il Duce, but he further declared, "Formal inauguration of La Camera del Fasci e delle Corporazioni [The Chamber of Fasce and Corporations] will depend on the successful conclusion of the Ethiopian War and upon developments in the European political situation...