Word: chambers
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Lincoln Chamber of Commerce Lincoln...
...Harking to the pleas of Missouri's Governor Park, onetime Governor Caulfield and Senator Bennett Champ Clark, President Roosevelt pardoned Conrad Henry Mann, president of the Kansas City Chamber of Commerce, Republican leader and good friend of Herbert Hoover. Mr. Mann had been convicted of operating a lottery for the Fraternal Order of Eagles in 1930. Another prominent Republican, Senator James John ("Puddler Jim") Davis, was acquitted of a similar charge in connection with a Moose lottery last month. Fat, white-haired Mr. Mann served in Manhattan's Federal House of Detention four hours of his five-month...
...opposition of the hard money men was getting organized. Day after the ceremony in the Oval Room of the White House, the directors of the U. S. Chamber of Commerce solemnly adopted a resolution urging a speedy return to a dollar with a fixed gold content, charging that dollar uncertainty prevented recovery, upset Government credit. The same day the President on his way South (see p. 7) quoted John Stuart Mill's statement: ''History shows that great economic and social forces flow like a tide over communities only half conscious of that which is befalling them...
With a sweeping order of the day worthy of that other little man Napoleon Bonaparte, short, broad-browed, flashing-eyed Benito Mussolini canceled last week the Chamber of Deputies' power to legislate in the economic affairs of Italy and conferred this power on the National Council of Corporations, the great coordinating body of his Corporative State (TIME...
...Chamber of Deputies has never pleased me!" II Duce exuberantly told the Council which pleases him at the moment very much. "When the Fascist regime was created we buried political liberalism.* Today we bury economic liberalism...