Word: chambers
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...recent months various newshawks have more than once thought they detected signs of the disease of Presidents in Franklin Roosevelt. Last week most of them were sure. The middling-sized businessmen who compose the rank & file of the Chamber of Commerce-who for more than a year have opposed many aspects of the New Deal, but who, for diplomatic reasons, have previously been kept by their tycoon leaders from expressing their feelings-had finally ridden roughshod over those who counseled them to speak softly, had passed a set of resolutions bluntly objecting to the Administration's banking, utilities...
...called business organizations, such as the Chamber, were apt to misrepresent the businessmen they claim to speak...
...most interesting thing to him, he said scathingly, was that the only feeling the Chamber showed for the hardships of the unemployed and the aged poor was expressed in a few passing generalities to the effect that Chambermen did not really enjoy seeing old people starve...
...tycoons of Secretary Roper's Business Advisory Council, who called on him to present a report, had, he said, pretty well approved the principles of his program, unlike the carping critics of the Chamber...
...evidence that the Chambermen had been meanly partisan and did not represent the opinion of businessmen he read with slow emphasis from a clipping in which Francis E. Powell, head of the American Chamber of Commerce in London, expressed astonishment that U. S. business should make a "stubborn fight" on the New Deal...