Word: chambers
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Apparently one of the chief bogey-men of the nineteenth century is to be refurbished. The Italian Chamber of Deputies was told by the committee on paid expenditures that "Japan today invades China; inspired by race hatred, she will plan tomorrow against white men." The reason for this revival of the Yellow Peril is, of course, the realization that the realistically minded Japanese have managed in spite of the Washington Treaty to build a field which is, in all likelihood, the equal of any in the world today, and the fact that Japanese commercial competition, particularly in the field...
...police ordered rescuers to "take only the ones that are nearly whole." Beside the track they laid out 180 corpses. In an ice-crusted field, by the fog-laden light of fires and lanterns, they laid out nearly 400 injured. Among the latter were two members of the French Chamber of Deputies. Soon on the narrow dirt road into the little town of Lagny, wound a file of taxis, ambulances and delivery trucks such as had not been seen since the battle of the Marne, 19 years ago and ten miles away...
...anything to do with it. ... I want to have my sentence-20 years in prison or death!" (TIME, Dec. 4). Just before 9 a. m. one day last week Judge Wilhelm Bünger and his five red-robed colleagues marched into the Supreme Court's dingy chamber to make known their verdict. They gave the Nazi salute. Court attendants and the audience returned it. In the prisoners' dock the Dutchman drooped, the German fidgeted, two of the Bulgars looked nervous but George Dimitroff, the fiery walking delegate of the World Communist Party who heckled Premier...
...Coolidge times the businessmen who went to the Chamber of Commerce Building in Washington were bigger. The 150 businessmen who visited it in a body last week were piddling small. They did not come of their, own volition. They came on peremptory summons from the NRA for violating in their many little dry-cleaning shops throughout the land their miniscule but racket-infested industry's minimum price agreement (65? to 95? for cleaning a suit or dress...
...someone, gently raping, raping at my chamber door. . . Only this and nothing more...