Word: chambers
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Their eldest son last week was seen at night, a slender figure outlined in silhouette against the glowing windows of Sandringham, pacing about with quick movements in a chamber near that of George V. The Queen, indefatigable nurse and splendid woman, snatched only the briefest catnaps in a small bedchamber and was virtually in attendance night & day in the big, air-conditioned room where the King lay barred from drafts by a double circle of high screens around...
...ready to set back Pierre Laval last week was the potent cabal inside the Radical Socialist Party which is violently hostile to the Premier. As a party the Radical Socialists, who hold a balance of power in the French Chamber, are supposed to be anti-Laval, but as individuals enough of them favor him to have made possible his Cabinet's dance on the tightrope of Power all these months. Last week the anti-Laval cabal forced a showdown within the party, demanding that hereafter Radical Socialists vote as a unit in the Chamber. At this showdown...
...gory death in an Alpine chalet of one Stavisky, either a suicide or slain by the French Secret Police because he knew too much; the stench of corruption in the French Government; the marching indignation of French citizens who made for the Chamber of Deputies only to be fired upon (TIME, Feb. 19, 1934)-in short the whole colossal Stavisky Scandal which nearly produced another French Revolution has had one concrete result. Since the scandal broke, French politicians have realized that they must stand together, and the nation has been ruled by coalition Cabinets with greater authority and less squabbling...
...called in as architect after graft and mismanagement had used $7,000,000 of public funds and only carried the original design of Architects Arthur D. Gilman and Thomas Fuller through the first floor. The graft continued. The handsome metal ceiling that Richardson designed for the Senate Chamber was secretly executed in papier-mache by a political contractor...
Because the Aeronautical Chamber of Commerce is dominated by manufacturers, all the scheduled airlines in the U. S. last week withdrew from it, formed a new body called the Air Transport Association of America. Its purpose: Coordination of schedules, credit, advertising, buying power, engineering data. Its president: Colonel Edgar Staley Gorrell...