Word: chambers
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...office may seem incorrigibly undignified to her husband, but they make good copy. From her Monday press conferences, which she innovated, comes many a little human interest yarn. Fortnight ago she started another of her countless crusades, this time against poisonous cosmetics. In the Department of Agriculture's "chamber of horrors" she had discovered two photographs of a horribly blinded victim of "Lash Lure." Showing them to the ladies of the Press, she pressed the pictures to her breast and exclaimed: "I cannot bear to look at them...
...Benito Mussolini, the Duce who has mastered Italian politics so thoroughly that his main interest now lies in turning the state into a business run efficiently by businessmen, pushed preparations last week to cut out what he has come to think of as Italy's political appendix, the Chamber of Deputies...
Whanging a big dinner bell, the Premier rang to order in Rome the National Council of Corporations, destined, most Italians assume, to supplant the Chamber. In Italy corporazioni ("corporations") are the higher groups which represent the basic Fascist syndicates of employers and employes. Every Italian, whatever his business, trade or profession, is represented by and must pay dues to the local syndicate of his occupation. He need not belong to the syndicate but he is bound by the bargains it makes respecting his wages and working hours or-if he is an employer-respecting the wages he must...
Promptly up popped that fiery Roman Syndicalist President Arturo di Marsanich of the National Confederation of Fascist Syndicates of Commerce. While Il Duce sat expressionless as stone, Signor Marsanich cried: "There is only one logical consequence of Fascist corporative policy: the Council of Corporations should absorb the Chamber of Deputies and become the sole legislative assembly. . . . Italy will then have an assembly of men qualified to legislate on economic matters as well as those qualified to legislate in the fields of ethics and politics...
...Ricostruzione Industrial created by II Duce early this year (TIME, Feb. 20). Other rescue parties, other guaranteed bond issues will undoubtedly follow, putting the State further and further into business. Simultaneously business will be put further and further into the State, as the National Council of Corporations supplants the Chamber of Deputies. Last week Dictator Mussolini loomed as the exponent of a synthesis different from but almost as sweeping as Dictator Stalin's. "It is my deep conviction," he declared, "that this Italian reform will be adopted by all nations having a developed economy. I think the Roosevelt experiment...