Word: chambers
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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HANDBOOK OF THE SOVIET, by the American-Russian Chamber of Commerce, originally scheduled for January, will be published by John Day on March...
...very apparent from the proceedings in the Governor's chamber yesterday that Governor Ely and Commissioner Dillon find little to comfort them in the present settup of the Gill inquiry. The body of the attack was originally to have centered in the report of Francis X. Hurley, state auditor. That report was, for some, a distinct disappointment. Intelligent public faith in it was destroyed by the press fanfare which accompanied the confidential investigation and which derived its information from "authoritative sources in the State House;" to a great many the whole business looked like a publicity stunt, designed to build...
Above Schneider-Creusot stands the Comite des Forges and above this all-powerful iron and steel organization stands the shadowy figure of Frangois de Wendel. M. de Wendel is regent of the Bank of France. He is a member of the Chamber of Deputies. He owns most of Le Journal des Debats. His international connections during the War were so powerful that, when the Germans took the French iron mines in the Briey basin, the French Army was forbidden to bombard the source of a great part of the ore Germany consumed during the War. With all Governments as their...
Blacker than ever hung the shadow of Stavisky over the Chamber of Deputies. The death of Stavisky might not have been a political murder but nobody could deny the murder of Albert Prince. Premier Doumergue, enraged, offered 100,000 francs reward for the capture of the murderer and assigned famed Detective Charles Belin to take personal charge. Now head of the Surete Generale, the French secret police, M. Belin trailed, captured and brought to the guillotine Bluebeard Landru. All he could discover last week was that Judge Prince was quite dead before he was tied to the track, and that...
Immediately upon the announcement of the President's order, there came, of course, the expected reverberations from the expected people. The two principal protestants were the National Association of Manufacturers and the United States Chamber of Commerce, both organizations bellowing against the monopoly which was, in their estimation, being placed in the lap of Labor. The roar goes up, "What about the self-government of industry?", a roar which rather well illustrates the position of the compliance division in the eyes of these gentlemen. There can be no doubt, I think, that the Executive order was the best...