Word: chambers
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Into Colorado's new lethal gas chamber at Canon City last week Warden Roy Best put a crated hog. When he turned on the gas the hog squealed, struggled, died. Next into the chamber he put an old dog, a pigeon, a brace of canaries. They all died. Nearby in a cell sat William Cody Kelley, shifty-eyed farmhand. Refused clemency, he prayed quietly for his pretty 23-year-old wife, his 4-month-old baby. Unable to finance an appeal, he was to be the first man executed in Colorado without a review of his case...
...Saturday night and the members of the House had drained the last drops of beer & ale in their Restaurant. But they did not get away from Washington that night, thanks to the Senate. In that august chamber bitter legislative rivalries at the last minute thwarted the Administration's best plans for a quick adjournment. Ohio's Bulkley started the tangle with a measure for minor amendments to the Banking Act-1933. Washington's Dill and Michigan's Couzens leaped in with a measure to apply collective bargaining to the railroads and their workers. Louisiana...
...responsibility for foreign creditors' disappointments. . . . Germany's declaring a moratorium bespeaks an energy which Gilbert never possessed!" For his part Dr. Schacht, who works, eats and sleeps at the Reichsbank, had an elaborate thesis of accusation which he read out in the Reichsbank Central Com mittee Chamber, directly under his bed room. Drawing a deep breath for the cataract of words he was about to utter, Dr. Schacht cried: "Now that our colonies which were attaining before the War to increasing importance as sources of raw materials have been taken away in a fashion that practically excludes Germany...
...What was called pressure," read the report, "was no more than advice or persuasion. That persuasion did not change the Chamber's opinions which were changed by other causes, notably by advices received from a mission sent to India by the Chamber. . . . The conversations at the dinner were evidently of an informal nature...
...hundred million drachmas ($5,700,-000) is a lot of money to Greeks. To get it from the Chamber of Deputies and "to spend this huge but necessary sum for munitions" was the program last week of gruff General George Kondylis, Minister of War. With a pack of Deputies who would stop at nothing to back him up. Genera! Kondylis strutted into the hall and Zing!-a chair hurtled clear across the Chamber at Alexander Papanastasiou, leader of the Opposition. M. Papanastasiou, an artful dodger, was not hurt until he threw the chair back at the Government with such violence...