Word: chambers
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...buzz of excitement stirred in the galleries as Senator Robinson, presumably fresh from communication with the White House, stalked into the chamber. Taking the floor for his final plea, Leader Robinson declared: "There has been unfair, unjust, unreasonable propaganda carried on during the course of this debate, carried on by agencies outside the Senate. Appeals have gone from end to end of the country to citizens to send telegrams to Senators to take a stand of opposition on this issue. More than 40,000 telegrams have been sent here in response to such requests, every one of them prompted...
...forced to issue an edict on February 7, 1848, granting the constitutional government Cavour advocated, when a revolution broke out in Austrian dominated Piedmont in that year. Cavour's greatest work took place when the preparations were made for the inception of the democratic system of a Senate and Chamber of Deputies. At this time Cavour was the only figure of the day to work on the specific problems involved, and by his efforts and wide knowledge gained by studying first-hand the parliamentary bodies in England and France, he brought the new system in Italy successfully into being. Following...
...generally indicate a gentle determination to maintain the status quo. Naturally, the problem is not this simple in reality, as public utility men will loudly declaim. But on the whole, the policy of the President appears to be one of favoring big business first, and groups like the National Chamber of Commerce are slowly coming to realize and confirm this fact...
...Presiding Bishop of his Church, Bishop Gailor was lavishly honored by Church & State a year and a half ago upon the 40th anniversary of his consecration, the 25th of his chancellorship of the University of the South at Sewanee. A onetime vice president of the U. S. Chamber of Commerce, he has quietly refrained from splashing the front pages of newspapers with his social and economic views. But last week this venerable churchman broke his silence and boldly plumped for "wise interference of Government in control of private business." Said...
...after a Photomatic customer in the booth deposits 25? and pulls a lever, his finished picture, framed in light metal, drops out into a receptacle. This speed is accomplished by exposing three-inch circles of sensitized paper already framed. Immediately after exposure the discs are shot into a developing chamber, sprayed by six chemicals which develop a positive print. The print is not quite dry when the ejecting mechanism shoots it out to the customer...