Word: chambers
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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This could mean only one thing STAVISKY. It was Deputy Henriot's accusations in the Chamber following the collapse of the Bayonne municipal pawnshop that started the Stavisky scandal. This young girl must have known things. Or perhaps the murder was a warning to silence Deputy Henriot. Checking over their Stavisky files, reporters made a list of tragedy. Since the Bayonne pawnshop swindle was uncovered there have been: Murder: Judge Albert Prince (TIME March 5, et seq.). Suicide: Swindler Alexandre Stavisky (TIME, Jan. 15), Director Emile Blanchard of the Agricultural Service Station Jean Brunschvik, diamond merchant whose name appeared...
...impassioned oratory that attracted the coat-room habitues to the Senate Chamber and stilled the small talk in the galleries, Sonator Borah, swerving from a discussion of policy concerning the delegation of tariff powers to the President, today became the embattled defender of the Ship of State and the Constitution. Taking his cue from Oliver Wendell Holmes' stirring plea to save the Constitution's sea-going namesake from being ignominiously scuttled, the Senator from Idaho invoked all the sentimental balderdash at his command to keep the leaky old frigate and its battery of muzzle-loaders in the first line...
...Suicide or Revolution." The present president of the U. S. Chamber of Commerce is no such old-school businessman. Born in Brooklyn 61 years ago, Henry Ingraham Harriman joined the New York Bar, went to Boston to make his fortune. He helped found New England Power Association (which developed the first major hydro-electric sites on the Connecticut River) and untangle Boston's transit tangle. Director in many a potent New England bank and industry, he owns a 200,000-acre cattle ranch in Montana, reads Greek for relaxation. He has been close to the New Deal from...
President Roosevelt has lately complained to friends that all big businessmen who visit him have only one threadbare suggestion to offer: ''Restore confidence!" That hoary cry rang frequently through the Chamber last week but never more loudly than from the Chamber's president under Herbert Clark Hoover. Silas Hardy Strawn, a stout Republican pillar, spoke on security regulation, a subject which ranked a close second to NRA as the Chamber's chief interest. The hard-bitten Chicago lawyer refused to admit that he was a Roosevelt wolf-crier but his speech was shot with such phrases...
...Satisfied?" On NRA there was grumbling galore but the Chamber never doubted for a moment that in one form or another it was here to stay. General Johnson, who made no thundering defense before the assembled Chambermen, was not so sanguine. At a dinner of trade association executives he announced plans for a nation-wide drive within a month or two to whip up flagging interest in the new "code eagle." "Due to a lapse of public enthusiasm," said the General, a drive was imperative. "If you can't get public support, you just can't make...