Word: chambers
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...into the corridors tumbled the Deputies of France, but now they had a new rumor. Crop-headed Finance Minister Germain-Martin had resigned and Premier Flandin was coming before the Chamber to beg emergency financial powers and long life to a government that had already lost the Minister most important to France's current money crisis...
...slowly into the room, his face pale, his huge frame much thinner than before his automobile accident last month. His broken left arm in a plaster cast was supported by a sort of wicker basket which, when he reached the rostrum, he rested on the plush pedestal. The entire Chamber, including the Communist Deputies, rose and cheered not Flandin the Premier but Flandin the Frenchman who bravely defied physical pain to do his duty...
...next government to which the Chamber accords its confidence must inevitably arrive at devaluation, and such an operation has not been undertaken in any country without decree powers being accorded to the government. Tomorrow you will have to grant full power to a government destined to prepare devaluation; today you can give it to a government which will combat devaluation...
After a full hour of this, Premier Flandin stepped from the rostrum, walked slowly from the Chamber, slumped in a faint in the corridor outside. He was hustled home, put to bed. Not for many hours did he learn that his entire speech had been in vain. Paunchy little Edouard Herriot, leader of the Radical Socialists, had leaped in to plead the government's case until long past midnight. It did not change a vote. The Flandin Cabinet was voted...
...been sitting directly above the Premier all evening, President Fernand Bouisson. A huge man, almost as tall as Flandin, with a sleek paunch and a neatly-cropped white beard, he was born in Constantine, Algeria, later moved to Marseille. Once a rugby player, he has represented Marseille in the Chamber since 1909, avoiding scandal and public attention, a stolid routine politician. Since 1927 he has held the safe but physically exhausting job of President of the Chamber, a job for which he is ideally suited because of his size, his strength, his enormous Marseille voice, generally admitted...