Word: chambers
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...under its rules would shortly be forced to a record vote on the issue. Many a Representative was thus put in a tight hole. If he voted for the bill he could be accused of greenbackery. If he voted against it, veterans would never forgive him. About the House Chamber circulated pitiful pleas that the Administration help its friends out of their predicament by getting the Ways & Means committee to report the bill unfavorably before the petition becomes effective, a piece of parliamentary hocus-pocus that would stave off a record vote...
...sombre, churchlike chamber the House of Lords last week considered the serious subject of birth control. A bill, already past its first reading, was before the House to regulate the sale of contraceptives, liberalize birth control instruction. Proponent of the bill was a weighty champion. King George's own physician, Lord Dawson of Penn...
Soberly, above the gilded angels on the Tribune, white-haired Gaston Doumergue faced the Chamber of Deputies last week. Disregarding Communist bellowings of "Assassin! Assassin!" he declared...
...that, for the day, was placidly peaceful. Throughout the city headquarters were set up, rolling kitchens were fired and posts mounted. Workmen were out at dawn scattering clean yellow sand in the Place de la Concorde, the Place de la République and along the boulevards near the Chamber of Deputies to keep soldiers' horses from slipping. An emergency Cabinet headed by six onetime Premiers of France had taken charge. There had been bloody storms before and there might be more after, but for that day the Third Republic seemed to have survived...
...became its ancient savage self. Mobs of veterans, of Communists, of screaming young Royalists tore through the streets. Some were headed by brass bands, some carried the tricolor, some the red flag. Each group was for a different cause but all were united against the small-mindedness of the Chamber of Deputies. In the broad Place de la Concorde occurred the bloodiest street battles Paris has seen since 1871. Drawn up at the opposite end of the square were blue-caped police, steel-helmeted Gardes Mobiles and mounted squadrons of the Garde Républicaine, guarding the bridge across...