Word: chambers
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...felt sory for the Vagabond: the Vagabond living alone in his Tower. Did he have a good bed? A lamp to read by? Was he warm at nights? "Stone walls! You'll catch your death of cold!" She would have him comfortable; yes, and rich. Rugs for his chamber; wood for his fire; drapes for his windows; even a new cloak to wear. But the Vagabond is not sure. Leave his Tower? New Furniture? Strange clothes...
These findings may have satisfied the Miami Chamber of Commerce, the Coral Gables Post of the American Legion, and other horrified groups which demanded investigations. But the verdict did not satisfy the Veterans of Foreign Wars, whose Commander-in-Chief, James E. Van Zandt, at Washington indignantly cried "Whitewash!", demanded that the President "punish officials responsible," declared that three times before the hurricane hit, veterans' committees had asked their superiors to be evacuated, only to be repulsed by guards...
...implications of this proviso struck the German Reichstag so forcibly that Deputies clutched their quaking midriffs and the whole chamber roared with Homeric laughter until tears of mirth glistened on many a cheek. Banging down his gavel President Göring boomed: "No Jew can insult Germany...
...evening last week reporters dawdled in the press box of Mexico's Chamber of Deputies while on the floor the majority bloc of President Cardenas' deputies steamrollered its program ruthlessly forward against the agitated but ineffective shouts of minority delegates. Up for discussion was a minority proposal to grant a 5,000-peso bonus ($1,400) to each & every member of Congress, a proposal which President Cardenas had vetoed week before, despite the fact that Mexican custom sanctions such "tips" to obedient legislators. When the majority deputies sternly resisted this tempting bait, voted it down, hell suddenly broke...
...shootings in the chamber were not the only sad incidents in Mexico last week. As secretly as possible trainloads of Federal troops were hustled north to Sonora. Rumors persisted along the border that seven separate rebel armies were drilling in the dusty mountains, preparing to overthrow Governor Ramon Ramos, a stanch Calles adherent...