Word: chambers
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Arkansas State Chamber of Commerce Little Rock...
...President, a point of order. . . . The point of order is that there is not order in the Chamber...
...jumped Majority Leader Robinson to invoke the most solemn of parliamentary devices: to direct the Sergeant-at-Arms to preserve order in the Chamber. Senator Pittman put the question. Senators Robinson, Borah & Copeland shouted...
...curt, frost-tipped words he warned the members of the upper chamber that if he was to be criticized for their acts and customs in the future, he intended to have more to say about them...
...that, since all three parties had pledged themselves to the voters to maintain the belga at its 1926 value in relation to gold, they all might as well cooperate in devaluing it further. Never was the clear mandate of an entire electorate more flatly disregarded. Soon the Chamber gave the van Zeeland Cabinet a vote of confidence 107-to-54, although 92% of the Deputies were pledged to oppose devaluation. When the Senate balked and seemed about to vote "no confidence," young King Leopold hastily threw the Belgian Crown's great influence behind devaluation, summoning leaders to the Royal...