Word: chambers
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...utter disgust at the behavior of the Chamber of Deputies last week doughty old Premier Albert ("Tomcat") Sarraut exclaimed, "The financial hemorrhage continues!" Few hours later he rode off to present the resignation of his four-week-old Cabinet to President Albert Lebrun...
...hemorrhage was golden. Because the Chamber has voted down Cabinet after Cabinet rather than balance the budget (TIME. Oct. 30, et ante), gold was pouring out of France at the rate of 100,000,000 francs a day, in flight to London, Amsterdam, Geneva and even Berlin. The Deputies pointed to the Bank of France gold reserves of nearly 80 billion francs and contended that the drain of 100 million francs a day could continue for at least another month before becoming "dangerous." This would give time, they remarked, to construct more Cabinets and "find a real majority...
...times Premier, could not form a Cabinet this week because: 1) he has barely recovered from a trip to Russia and Turkey which deranged his kidneys and caused him to lose 50 pounds; 2) he fell as Premier the day before Dec. 15 last year trying to get the Chamber to vote France's War debt payment to the U. S. and does not want to be Premier on Dec. 15 this year, when the Chamber will presumably continue to refuse last year's payment as well as this year...
...Vive Herriot!" cried scores of deputies when the loose-skinned leader appeared in the Chamber last week for the first time since his illness. When President Lebrun asked him to form a Cabinet he refused amid a buzz of Paris rumor that "Herriot will accept about...
...party seems to have started in Alling's room on December 29, 1676, when Onosephoeus Stanley, presumably a friend but no in Harvard, "came in to his chamber, sometime in the forenoon and so continued there until 3 or 4 or ye clock in ye afternoon. During which time...they had cider fetch(ed) in by ...Ailing... as he judgeth in all about 3 qts. for which they paid 2d a quart." Barnard, the other Freshman, stopped in to see Alling and "found they had some rum, which they had been drinking of." Another pint was soon required and sent...