Word: chambers
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Peering intently into a small chamber indicated by their reverent guide, the correspondents agreed that none of them could see the Ark of the Covenant...
...nearest thing to panic since last spring. Three successive uppings by the Bank of France of its discount rate failed to halt the flow. Instead it quickened. The radical parties opposing M. Laval redoubled what they call their politique du pire-tactics "to make everything worse & worse." As the Chamber of Deputies met after a five-month recess last week both the Socialist Populaire and the Radical Socialist L'Oeuvre predicted an immediate, bloody "March on Paris" by French Fascists. "The plan of attack includes assaults upon the Chamber of Deputies and various Ministries," flatly declared L'Oeuvre...
When the issue was joined, however, Premier Laval shamed the dirty-trickers and won by challenging the Deputies thus: "There seem to be many devaluationists in this Chamber. I call upon them to show themselves by voting against my Government...
...trouble began when it became necessary to investigate the source of six inches of water in the forced-draft ventilating chamber of the underground passageways around the House. Two days ago the discovery was made by an unidentified here...
...Disused but in good repair at Vatican City is the world's most elaborate private train. An entire car is devoted to the papal chamber and throne room, with four lifesize figures of angels outside the big arched windows. By an ingenious mechanism the Throne can be caused to upend and vanish into the wall, a superb berth appearing in its place covered by a white & gold canopy. So that six Cardinals can celebrate Mass at once en route, the Papal Train has six altars sumptuously provided with cruets of water and sacrificial wine, tabernacles, lace altar cloths, candlesticks...