Word: chambers
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...container, a breathing tube, a nose clip. Half-drowned, he was Captain H. P. K. Oram, commander of the Fifth Submarine flotilla but not of the Thetis. Before he knew that help was at hand he had volunteered to take his chances getting out of the dangerously tilted escape chamber. He and six others, with messages of the submarine's plight strapped to their wrists, were to act as human marker buoys, dead or alive. Of the seven, only Captain Oram and three others reached the surface. He was surprised to find the Brazen standing by. That news...
...Herriot (later to be three times Premier, now president of the French Chamber of Deputies) was the leading figure of the growing Radical Socialist Party. From him Daladier took his first political color. Neither very radical nor very socialist, the Party represents a conservative group, the great peasant and small trader class of France. As a Radical Socialist, Daladier was elected to the Chamber of Deputies and has been regularly re-elected for 20 years...
Pedagogue Daladier was one of the most silent members of the talkative Chamber of Deputies. He did condemn the French occupation of the German Ruhr in 1921-24. He did advocate friendship with the post-War Weimar Republic. He favored, however vaguely, an economic reorganization of Europe. Once he said: "France is now in the hands of a financial oligarchy, from whom power must be wrested and given back to the people...
...Chiappe seemed overly lenient in dealing with the demonstrators. The Chautemps Government fell and M. Daladier, Chautemps' successor, fired M. Chiappe. It was then-February 6, 1934-that a mob gathered at the Place de la Concorde and started over a bridge across the Seine to rush the Chamber of Deputies on the opposite bank. Mobile Guards, assembled by the Daladier Government, fired into the crowd: 24 were killed, hundreds injured. Next day, without waiting for a vote from the Chamber, the Premier resigned, a thoroughly discredited, despised politician. The Right nicknamed him Le Fusilleur ("The Rifleman"). The Left...
Leading literary pluggers for the Nazi folk-soul are: Harms Johst, Germany's foremost dramatist by default, and since 1935 head of the Reich Chamber of Literature. His Schlageter was for years almost the only presentable Nazi drama. In 1934 Johst's play Prophets was so violently anti-Semitic that it frightened even Field Marshal Goring into banning it. Johst is author of the Nazi crack: "Whenever I hear the word Culture, I reach for my revolver...