Word: chambers
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Thus pressure on the franc last week was "psychological, not actual," in the opinion of foreign exchange experts. They pointed to the success of new Premier Flandin in winning huge votes of confidence from Chamber and Senate on a program of rock-ribbed gold standardism (seep. 21). The gold cover behind French currency stood at over 80%. Even so, psychological pressure was great. After-effects of the French crisis fortnight ago kept the currencies of four gold bloc countries (France, Belgium, Netherlands, Switzerland) fractionally below the gold export point all week. President Roosevelt, by relaxing completely the lax treasury restrictions...
...Premier faced the Chamber with a crisp, dynamic program speech: "The world is suffering from too much controlled economy....I ask union for action and action in union!...Stability of the franc must be maintained and interest rates lowered....Restricted economic regimes have failed everywhere. France must have organized, controlled and defended Liberty to remedy the evils of unemployment, poor sales and slack business...
...largest majority any French Cabinet has received in years, Premier Flandin was upheld in the Chamber 423-to-118, received a vote of approval by the Senate so overwhelming that it was not even counted. France, as M. Flandin remarked, thus began "the last experiment in parliamentary democracy." If it fails, he warned, the alternative is Dictatorship...
...Chamber, paunchy, pipe-sucking Radical Socialist Leader Edouard Herriot elaborately explained to whoever would listen that he had been faithless to M. Doumergue and encompassed his Cabinet's fall (TIME, Nov. 19) because he thought the beloved ex-President intended to set up some kind of Dictatorship...
...before the bankers in Washington last month. Big Business lettermen were joining long before elections. But not until it was apparent that the New Deal would probably last six years did a general stampede begin for positions in the Roosevelt lineup. And not until last week did the U.S. Chamber of Commerce turn out for scrimmage. Indeed, the Chamber's directors had no intention whatever of going into strict New Deal training when they assembled in Washington for a purely routine meeting. They merely saw a fine chance to get in the game, and, much to the astonishment...