Word: chambers
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Within 72 hours after Broker Verviers' arrest for guessing at 25% devaluation, Premier van Zeeland, having first closed all exchanges, was telling the Belgian Chamber and Senate that he planned to devalue the belga by a maximum of 30% if other nations will join Belgium in an international monetary stabilization pact. If they will not, then the bright blue sky is Premier van Zeeland's devaluation limit...
...Chamber the frantically popular keynoter of the week was Deputy Henry Franklin-Bouillon, famed for his opposition to the Treaty of Versailles in 1919 as "not harsh enough," and zealous ever since in demanding that it be enforced as harshly as possible...
...grappled with firmly by New-dealing French Premier Pierre Etienne Flandin, a veteran transatlantic traveler who knows the value of sea prestige. On his order the Normandie wall be classed virtually as a naval unit among possessions of the State under a bill last week submitted to the Chamber of Deputies...
...France's 1935 defense budget of $792,000,000 is the hugest peacetime appropriation in her history. And last week the Chamber of Deputies upped the Army conscript period from 12 to 18 and 24 months for the next five years while the lean "War Baby" classes are being called to the colors...
Perhaps the strongest underlying cause for the current U. S. gloom was summed up last week by President Henry I. Harriman of the U. S. Chamber of Commerce who is by no means unfriendly to the Administration. "Faith in the New Deal is waning," he declared. "During the past two years I have crossed the continent many times . . . visited many sections . . . talked with people in all walks of life. And as a reporter I can say that up to the fall elections of 1934 the President had fully maintained his remarkable popularity...