Word: chambers
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...permit business to let off its critical steam without busting out in open denunciation of the New Deal. Fortnight ago Secretary Roper's Advisory & Planning Council of 50 tycoons came in handy when the President used its call on him as evidence that the critical Chamber of Commerce did not represent the reaction of business to the New Deal, but last week the 50 tycoons had to be placated. Council Chairman Henry Plimpton Kendall called at the White House to explain that his fellow tycoons felt that: 1) their advice did not appear to be very much needed...
...roll call became evident, Senator Clark's face grew red with anger. When Senator Wheeler's name was called, and a voice voted for the Patman Bill, Bennett Clark jumped up spluttering: "Point of Order, Mr. President! The Senator from Montana is not in the Chamber but the Senator from Louisiana, Mr. Long, answered for him.. I distinctly heard...
...bonds between them, often persuaded them to hang together instead of flying off in a dozen individual directions. When the news of Bronson Cutting's death was brought to the Capitol, Bob La Follette burst into tears and would not go on the floor. In the Senate Chamber Norris bowed his head and covered his eyes with his hands, Borah openly wept...
Although the Chamber of Commerce was unduly harsh in its recent criticism of the New Deal, its indiscretions lay in the direction of its uncompromising hostility to social reform. In its denunciation of the dilly-dallying financial policies of the administration the Chamber expressed the righteous impatience of all businessmen. If any permanent recovery is to be made, capital will have to reinvest but it seems hardly likely to do so until the burning issues, which the government contemptuously ignores, are settled on a secure basis...
...final dig at the U. S. Chamber of Commerce, the President warmly welcomed a group of his oldtime bad boys, the bankers. At its annual convention last autumn the American Bankers Association kept its rebellious members under iron control, with the result that an official peace treaty was signed with the President. Last week, although the ABA officials served notice that they intended to fight the Banking Bill, endorsed in his fireside broadcast only last fortnight, President Roosevelt cheerfully told them that his mind was still open...