Word: chambers
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...amid their efforts to get through first reading the longest measure ever submitted to Parliament-the India Bill giving a more liberal status to the Empire's vast subcontinent (TIME, Dec. 3)-by news that at Bombay last week the turbaned and bejeweled Maharajas of India's Chamber of Princes adopted a resolution as follows: "This meeting desires to emphasize that in many respects the bill and the instrument of accession depart from agreements arrived at during the meetings of representatives of the Indian States with members of His Majesty's Government. It regrets to note that...
...Haberler has gained his reputation chiefly at the University of Vienna, he also has figured in international affairs. He is director of the business cycle study now being conducted by the League of Nations, and from 1929 to 1931 was secretary of the Austrian National Committee of the International Chamber of Commerce...
Into the U. S. Senate Chamber on the same day walked Mississippi's Theodore Gilmore Bilbo with a black eye and Louisiana's Huey Pierce Long with a bandaged hand. Senator Bilbo said he got the black eye in an automobile accident. Senator Long said his hand was afflicted with "athlete's foot...
Neatly clad in a brown herringbone suit, a spare, tight-lipped little man walked into a room in the Department of Agriculture one day last month, obligingly posed for cameramen. Secretary Wallace glared at him from the other end of the chamber. So did Secretary Roper and Attorney General Cummings. This Cabinet trio, constituting the Grain Futures Commission of the U. S., had summoned him before them to begin hearings in the biggest case ever handled by that tribunal. The little man was Arthur William Cutten, whom the Government described as "the greatest speculator this country ever...
...Soviet Foreign Minister Litvinoff had meanwhile secretly begotten in draft form the Eastern Locarno Pact first revealed by M. Barthou at London (July 8, 1934), today the diplomatic white hope of Europe. Rumor persists that he and Comrade Litvinoff arranged a Russo-French military entente. In the French Chamber of Deputies last autumn Military Budget Rapporteur Archimbaud blabbed: "The Russian Army . . . has been offered to us in the event of war with Germany...