Word: chambers
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...were tart, but in public he made pointed demonstration of his warm personal friendship for the harassed young man who is Britain's Minister Without Portfolio for League of Nations Affairs. Together they dined & wined in a Paris restaurant, later appeared arm in arm in the gallery of the Chamber of Deputies with the explanation that "Captain Eden wishes to observe the Chamber of Deputies at work...
This was understood as an appeal to all Frenchmen of goodwill to support the drastic budget-balancing slashes for which the Chamber and Senate recently gave Premier Laval special powers (TIME, June 17). "I am not going to abuse them," he promised last week, "but I am going to use them! . . . France must, if she is to be strong and healthy, do two things: First, adjust her income to her expenditure; Second, count on herself first of all for assurance of her security...
...Kenneth Hunter at Chicago five years ago, some 25,000 people jammed Meridian Municipal Airport to cheer them on. In carnival spirit, the crowd danced at the airport all night, whooped at the announcement that the field would henceforth be known as Key Airport. Ablaze with civic pride, the Chamber of Commerce promised the Brothers Key $100 for each & every day they stayed aloft after breaking the record, and the Junior Chamber of Commerce presented their children with Shetland ponies...
...king by the appropriate minister, but further endowed by Article XIII with what the new Constitution calls "prerogatives," these requiring no countersignature. At his autocratic pleasure he can dissolve the Sejm and Senate and can dismiss the Premier, First President of the Supreme Court, President of the Supreme Chamber of Control, and the Commander-in-Chief and Inspector General of Poland's armed forces by land, sea and air. Moreover the President orders Polish general elections and nominates one of the candidates who may succeed himself as President, the electoral machinery being so rigged that a determined President...
...Irwin, who is now a director of the U. S. Chamber of Commerce, decided that such talents should be given an opportunity to flower. Chauffeur Cummins, mechanically inclined since childhood, had built an automobile at the age of 15. Mr. Irwin set him up in business with $10,000, eventually backed him with half a million. By 1930 Chauffeur Cummins was one of the leading manufacturers of Diesel engines...