Word: chambers
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...fresh vote of confidence in the Chamber, 457 to 120, defeating a Socialist motion to take away from Foreign Minister Pierre Laval the treasured "secret funds" of the Quai d'Orsay, traditionally used to sweeten the French Press. In effect the Chamber thus endorsed a double-barreled speech by M. Laval last week in which he fired blandishments and menaces at Adolf Hitler: "We shall ask of other countries that they assure conjointly with us a police mission for the eventual re-establishment of order. . . . Chancellor Hitler affirms his wish for peace. We ask him by associating in the policy...
...Slammed through the Chamber the expenditure clauses of next year's budget, totaling 46,983,718,365 francs ($3,100,925,412), preparatory to debating this week the receipts clauses or "Where shall we get all that money...
...speech on foreign relations delivered yesterday to the Chamber of Deputies by M. Laval is an excellent example of the fact that although French ministries may, and do, come and go, La Patrie apparently goes on forever. French policy never varies in its insistence on security and honor; only the instruments change...
There being no need for alarm, the enthusiastic Chamber then and there passed the French Army budget for 1935, loaded with the colossal charge of 5,689,000,000 francs ($374,000,000). An additional 800,000,000 francs will be voted later "outside the budget" (to avoid unbalancing it) and raised by a special loan. After stirring appeals from Air Minister Victor Denain, the Chamber prepared to toss him $230,000,000 and it was estimated that the total 1935 French Defense Budget will exceed...
...common private convenience, conditioned air is a necessity in many an industry, a valuable trade-getter for hotels, theatres, stores, railroads. Besides a long and imposing list of industrial customers, Carrier equipment manufactures weather in the Senate Chamber and House of Representatives; the White House executive offices; the ape-house of The Bronx Zoo; Atlantic City's convention hall; the London Daily Mail; the Secretariat in Delhi, India; Manhattan's RCA Building; San Francisco's Stock Exchange. Lately Mr. Carrier contracted to air condition the world's deepest gold mine, in South Africa...