Word: chambers
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...right hands of 90 tycoons last week clasped one another at White Sulphur Springs, W. Va. There at the call of the recovery committees of the U. S. Chamber of Commerce and the National Association of Manufacturers were Owen D. Young (General Electric), Silas Hardy Strawn (U. S. Chamber of Commerce), Henry I. Harriman (U. S. Chamber of Commerce), Clinton Lloyd Bardo (Manufacturers Association), Lewis H. Brown (Johns-Manville), Paul W. Litchfield (Goodyear Tires), Charles Bismark Ames (Texas Corp.), Ernest T. Weir (National Steel), Walter Jodok Kohler (of Kohler), George Harrison Houston (Baldwin Locomotives), Andrew Wells Robertson (Westinghouse...
...hasty acceptance of the invitation to retake his seat when Long's bodyguard, Joe Messina, threatened to put him under arrest if he refused. The Senate showed a spark of spirit by voting down one bill when Boss Long was away. But when he swaggered back to the chamber the Chair hastily reversed its ruling, declared the bill passed...
...kept Washington and London under the impression that he would make no gesture to ease Tokyo's odium. Then in Paris up jumped fiery Naval Minister Francois Pietri last week. "The Washington Treaty is intolerable for France!" he told the Naval and Foreign Affairs Committees of the French Chamber. "We, the Cabinet, are agreed soon to declare publicly that France considers the Treaty as ended in 1936, but of course France is always ready for limitation of armaments...
...that could conceivably get the Dictator himself. On the growing hypothesis that steel-nerved Stalin for once has been badly scared, his executions of "pure terror'' and continued arrests were understandable last week. Down in Kiev, ancient, church-jammed Mother Town of All The Russias, star chamber trials continued under famed Judge Ulrich. Meanwhile Comrade Nicolaev, the assassin of "Dear Friend Sergei," remained alive awaiting trial...
Earlier in the week Rumania's great peasant leader, Dr. Juliu Maniu, had given fair warning that he would orate upon royal sin in the Chamber of Deputies. Promptly the censor suppressed this speech, but its contents soon leaked out. Dr. Maniu had been about to reveal that as Premier he consented to Carol's return, and to the ending of the regency for Boy King Mihai (TIME, June 16, 1930), solely on the strength of promises made by Mistress Lupescu. Read his suppressed speech in part: "She declared 'My role has been that of Carol...