Word: chambers
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Jersey Court of Errors & Appeals. Also on hand was Attorney General David T. Wilentz, the man who did more than any other to convict Hauptmann. In marked contrast to the scene at the trial court with its fetid air, crowded benches, hustling newsmen, was the great, placid, colonial chamber of the Court of Errors & Appeals, whose floor is carpeted in rich burgundy red, whose walls are filled with great legal tomes, whose broad windows look out upon the Delaware River. No one was admitted except those on official business, even Mrs. Hauptmann and Spiritual Adviser Werner being turned away...
...into Poland's new Constitution thus, Article LXXVII: "To control the financial activities of the State and of institutions of a legally public status; to examine the State fiscal accounts; and to submit annual recommendations to the Sejm, for release to the Government, there is established the Supreme Chamber of Control based on the principles of corporative membership and the independence of its members. The Supreme Chamber of Control is independent of the Cabinet. The President of the Republic appoints and dismisses the President of the Supreme Chamber of Control...
...getting nowhere. No Senator rose to help his filibuster. The Shriners were beginning to go out to dinner. Shortly after 5 o'clock Oklahoma's Senator Thomas made the point of no quorum. While the roll was being called Huey Long slipped out of the Chamber for brief relief. When he came back he asked for an opportunity to retire gracefully: "Mr. President, I am not anxious to proceed too long. If we can get a unanimous-consent agreement to vote by noon tomorrow on the motion I have made I shall have no objection to voting...
...There is hardly anyone in the Senate Chamber. The lights have been turned out in the cloakrooms. All are asleep. You go in the dark room and wake up a Senator to come in and vote out of that kind of an atmosphere, on a close vote like this, and the vote is likely to be decided on human temper. A man is likely to wake up and holler 'No' when he means 'Yes,' or 'Yes' when he means 'No.' It does not give him time to think...
Frenchmen, when their Chamber and Senate decided to spend $53,000,000 to build Normandie, thought of her in terms of the 2½ million days of work she would give French unemployed, reckoned her advertising value as greater than that of any French creation since the Eiffel Tower was put up as a world wonder in 1889. Last week, however, Frenchmen, essentially thrifty, wanted to know what Normandie's operating profit is going to be, having long ago resigned themselves to the unlikelihood that she will earn satisfactory interest on the capital France has invested...