Word: chambers
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...session that he thus described, however, but the sight of the Republican half of the Senate Chamber where stood his desk and 26 others. Crowded together across the aisle were 69 desks for 69 Senate Democrats. But the majority will not be able to muster 69 Democratic votes until after June 19 when West Virginia's Rush Dew Holt celebrates his 30th birthday and thereby becomes constitutionally eligible to be sworn in and take his Senate seat...
...Boss Guffey clinched last week's election of Tennessee's gawky, bush-browed Joseph Wellington Byrns to the Speakership by pledging the solid vote of Pennsylvania's 23 Democratic Representatives to his candidacy. Last week Senator Guffey again showed what a power he was in the chamber at the other end of the Capitol from the one in which he officially functions. At the Democratic caucus to pick a leader to succeed Speaker Byrns, eight candidates were in the field. But when Boss Guffey threw his 23 Pennsylvania votes to Alabama's Bankhead...
Equally wistful was another unsworn in the Senator, Rush Dew Holt. He sat bemused in the back of the chamber. Only one thing stood in the way of his casting votes in the body to which the people of West Virginia elected him - the U. S. Constitution. That old document says inflexibly: No person shall be a Senator who shall not have attained to the age of 30 years...
...were coming to believe that it would not be an unqualified blessing. Manuel Quezon, president of the Philippine Senate, talked seriously with the visitors about continuing some sort of ties with the U. S. -tariff favors, for example. The Philippine Sugar Association, the Philippine-American Trade Association, the Philippine Chamber of Commerce and numerous local politicians all talked to the same tune...
Under new Premier Etienne Flandin's energetic drive for a freer French economy, the Chamber before adjourning for the holidays last week passed bills empowering the Government to unpeg the price of wheat in France. Zump!-the price dropped from a fictitious pegged price of $2.01 per bu. to $1.44. In stern orders to prefects all over France, Premier Flandin demanded and largely achieved last week a nationwide cut of about 12% in the price of baker's bread...