Word: chambers
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Outside the small, chaste chamber that once used to house the Senate there was one question which, if put to any of the nine black-robed Justices on the bench, would have resulted in a summary contempt of court citation. The question: Will the Supreme Court follow the election returns? Forthcoming decisions from this august tribunal on NRA, on AAA, on gold contracts, on railway pensions, on collective bargaining, on farm mortgage moratoriums, on many another headline issue will supply an answer that no amount of charming insistence from the White House, no thumping majority votes in Congress can override...
Richberg's favorable attitude towards the program of the United States Chamber of Commerce offers concrete evidence that the Administration at last desires the "cooperation of business and will in turn cooperate with business to revive trade and industry." But this policy is doomed to failure while labor assumes such an antagonistic attitude towards corporate industry, and while the textile workers threaten to inaugurate another paralyzing strike...
Nobody has ever before been able to get M. Mandel into a Cabinet, yet no French politician has a name more magical among his Chamber peers. Mandel was Clemenceau's greatest henchman, the lynx who did the Tiger's undercover work, much of it dirty. That Georges Mandel accepted last week the obscure post of Minister of Communications was characteristic. Any other portfolio would have suited him as well. With Georges Mandel working for Pierre Etienné Flandin, dopesters conceded him a safe majority when Parliament meets this week. His program, crisp-sounding but sufficiently vague, struck...
Italians call their present Chamber of Deputies the "Hara-kiri Chamber" because it is slated to commit suicide at II Duce's invitation and be replaced by either the small National Council of Corporations or the large General Assembly of the Corporative State. Since Mussolini was believed to favor the Council, there was a rustle of Fascist surprise last week when he seemed to destine the Assembly to succeed the Chamber of Deputies. "This Assembly," said Il Duce, "will substitute for another institution which belongs to a phase of history now relegated to the past...
...stuffed in their mouths and tears of mirth streaming down their cheeks. But Mrs. Jenkins went bravely on. For a Spanish group she wore a mantilla, carried a big feather fan, undertook a few little dancing steps to convey more spirit. While she was getting her breath, the Pascarella chamber group played Dvorak's Quintet and cameramen photographed the happy laughing faces in the audience...