Word: chambers
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...After twelve years in the U. S. House he was made Governor by the greatest of all Virginia political bosses, Senator Thomas Staples Martin, and then sent to the Senate for a career that lasted 22 years. He was one of Woodrow Wilson's main props in that chamber during the idealistic War years and the bitter years that followed. He wangled naval appropriations, formed a lasting friendship with Assistant Secretary Roosevelt, became the biggest Big Navy man in the Democratic Party. When he took office as Secretary, Washington's admirals breathed easier...
...Premier Edouard Daladier keynoted the crisis in a speech of such solemn brevity it sounded like a funeral rite. "For 20 years," he warned the Chamber of Deputies, "the situation in Europe has not been so delicate nor so grave as now. On the other side of our frontiers there are 3,000,000 men mobilized. In their factories the manufacture of armaments is being pushed forward feverishly. Reports keep reaching us of maneuvers and troop concentrations. It may be this summer that the issue between those who desire the pacific collaboration of nations and the attempt at domination...
Progressive architects regard the capital of the U. S. A. as a gleaming shirt front, dignified but stuffed. During its last great construction years the design of Government buildings was a monopoly of a few urbane neoclassicists, notably the late Cass Gilbert (Supreme Court, U. S. Chamber of Commerce) and the late John Russell Pope (Archives Building, National [Mellon] Gallery). Last week an open architectural competition brought forth the first modern design ever chosen for a national building in Washington. Its subject : a new Smithsonian Gallery...
...Hatay largely populated by Armenians, will go to adjacent Syria. To go to Turkey, however, is the mountain of Musa Dagh, scene of the 1935 best-seller Forty Days of Musa Dagh. Last week the tough Armenians who underwent the siege of 1915 there served notice on the French Chamber of Deputies that they would again resist a Turkish occupation...
Deputies who were in the Army appeared in grey Hungarian campaign kit. Forty Nazi deputies, fresh from decorating Budapest's Cenotaph, rolled up to the House of Parliament in a parade of swastika-decked automobiles and clumped into the Chamber in high boots, black trousers and green shirts. Nazis who were outraged when a Jewish photographer took their picture were admonished by their leader that "propaganda comes before all." The Hungarian Life Party members, supporters of the Government, came dressed in all black uniforms. Sole mufti-clad deputy was outspoken Foreign Minister Count Stephen Csaky, who thinks the Government...