Word: chambers
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Quietly, 80 miles south of Sarajevo, live Hero Princip's honored parents, simple peasants. Though proud of him and unremitting in their prayers for the safety of his soul, they are proud too of his brother, the Hon. Jovan Princip, today a Member of the Jugoslav Chamber of Deputies...
...your address to the Chamber of Deputies in which you touched on the decrease in the cost of living you said that in Rome one may buy bread for as little as 1.30 lire per kilo [about 5? per pound] and you added I have bought it myself...
...night they took William Cody Kelley from his cell, stripped him except for shorts and socks, marched him into the death chamber where there are three chairs. Into the middle chair they plopped Killer Kelley, strapped him tight, put a blindfold over his eyes. Beneath the chair was a trough containing twelve potassium cyanide "eggs." Under the trough was a bucket of sulphuric acid. Silently the guards withdrew and sealed the door. Through the windows peered 15 physicians. A lever was pulled. The "eggs" dropped into the bucket. White fumes boiled up. In ten seconds Kelley was unconscious...
...Board of Education sent a telegram to RFC. The Chamber of Commerce wrote a letter. The City Council and the Rotary Club adopted resolutions. At least five other organizations pleaded by telegraph and mail. Thus last week did Toledo get behind a move to push through a $2,000,000 loan from the RFC to Willys-Overland...
...production of 7,500 units authorized by the court. Willys-Overland's plight, far from hopeless, is partly due to a deficiency of working capital. Receiver Davis last week declared that unless new capital were forthcoming, the plant would have to shut down. "A calamity!" shrieked the Chamber of Commerce. Its point: Would not the Federal Government rather lend money now to keep Willys-Overland payrolls going than spend it later for relief payments in Toledo...