Word: chambers
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...somehow be linked in close mutual accord has become a ruling passion with the wealthy No. 1 Socialist of France, that exquisitely cultivated Jew and famed rabble-rouser, M. Léon Blum. From rostrums as various as the curbstone of a Paris slum and the tribune of the Chamber, long-nosed, stringy-haired M. Blum has clarioned: "Socialism is my religion!" Last week he lay in bandages, "put to bed for his religion" by Royalist youths, who thus brazenly described the outrageous beating they gave Socialist Blum when his appearance as a bystander at a Royalist funeral procession incensed...
Last week, although Blum's body had been bedded, the spirit of Blum was the strongest personal force in the Chamber of Deputies, thrusting for ratification of a military pact of mutual assistance between Russia and France. In fact Socialist Blum was so much in the hair of Premier Albert Sarraut that the Paris topical weekly Aux Ecoutes cartooned the Premier as a dog covered with fleas, each flea having the face of Léon Blum (see cut, p. 19). Exclaimed Aux Ecoutes, accurately reflecting the dilemma in which French politicians found themselves last week: "Abominable though...
...Dirty Dog." Nineteen months old was the still unratified Franco-Soviet Pact last week, but its every aspect became freshly vivid in one of the Chamber of Deputies' stormiest fortnights of debate before the issue narrowed to a vote...
...Canon City, Colo.'s prison, Warden Roy Best invited 100 convicts to watch the gas chamber execution of a pig in rehearsal of the execution of Murderer Otis McDaniels the following night. Said the Warden: "It gave them a mental picture for reference purposes of death in the gas chamber." Said McDaniels, excluded from the test execution: "I would have liked to have seen it." Following night the Warden invited a picked handful of convicts to watch the death of McDaniels...
Long Island University was started in 1926 when a well-to-do Brooklynite named Ralph Jonas, who had already expressed his civic loyalty by founding his borough's Chamber of Commerce, put up $500,000 as the original endowment. With this, and a few minor contributions, the University bought an old six-story factory from Yale & Towne Manufacturing Co. (locks), rebuilt the interior into classrooms. This used up most of the endowment. L. I. U. now supports itself on tuition paid by 950 coeducational students, 75% male. Its faculty of 60 is remarkable for versatility. Professor Paul Kosok teaches...