Word: chambers
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Next day the Langer partisans in the Senate, trying desperately to muster a quorum, sent out two husky sergeants at arms to muster absent members. They found Senator C. W. Fine, a weather beaten little farmer, in the Governor's council chamber, forcibly dragged him to the Senate floor...
...desk to take command. On one side of him was a loudspeaker which, by a twitch of the dial, let him hear debates in House or Senate. On the other was an electric gadget which, by means of red and green lights, told him how each member of each chamber downstairs voted. Senator Long may be mocked as a cheap demagog by the nation-at-large and his popularity with Louisiana voters may be on the wane, but at Baton Rouge he is still an autocrat. In a fashion which would have won instinctive approval from Benito Mussolini, he began...
...manufactured in Detroit by Amplex Manufacturing Co., a division of Chrysler Motors. Standing less than three feet high, the cabinet is attached to an ordinary electric base plug and water system, is equipped with a one-eighth h.p. motor which forces air up through water coils into a chamber where it is sprayed, dehumidified, washed under pressure. Water for the coils is cooled by the condensing unit which may be installed in a closet, kitchen or basement. Three cabinets can be operated on one condensing unit which costs about $200. Each cabinet conditions 600 cu. ft. of air per minute...
...Vexed Paris editors pointedly recalled Wilhelm II's high-handed dispatch of the warship Panther to Agadir in 1911 as a threat to France. The Italian demonstration at Durazzo apparently was II Duce's answer to M. Barthou who had just told a madly cheering Rumanian Chamber of Deputies in Bucharest that under the post-War treaties "Peace is restored to you and your frontiers! They will remain yours. You should know that if a square centimetre of your territory is touched France will be with...
...Hungary. Before leaving Rumania, which he lately induced to recognize Soviet Russia (TIME, June 18), M. Barthou was presented with the first Rumanian passport valid for travel among Bolsheviks, a flattering passport made out to "Louis Barthou, Rumanian citizen" in recognition of honorary citizenship just voted him by the Chamber of Deputies. According to Citizen Barthou of France and Rumania, his two countries are now "sister souls...