Word: chambers
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...sign the automobile code. He did not even give out a personal statement. But by letter and through spokesmen he let it be known that Ford Motor Co. would satisfy the major requirements of the motor code. He would file wage and hour reports for NRA with the Automobile Chamber of Commerce. As to collective bargaining, he dispatched...
Three days before, in the rococo legislative chamber of Iowa's capitol at Des Moines, all five Governors and representatives of four others had chewed stogies while tousle-headed Milo Reno, the rampaging Des Moines insurance man who fomented the Farmers Holiday movement, read off the list of his demands for agriculture. Hating Secretary Wallace and the AAA as a farmer hates a drought, Reno had asked for a farm code which would remove agriculture from Wallace's supervision, put it entirely under the NRA. Each farmer would be licensed to sell only his proportion of the domestic...
Still in no mood to balance France's scandalously unbalanced budget, the Chamber of Deputies warily received last week the new Cabinet of that sleek, nine-lived gourmet, Premier Albert Sarraut (TIME, Nov. 6). Impeccable in a frock-coat freshly pressed as usual, M. Sarraut serenely mounted the tribune, adjusted his gleaming pince-nez and read in a murmur a declaration of policy so carefully prolix and nebulous that it lulled and stupefied all opposition-as smart M. Sarraut intended. The Chamber will be left to face of itself the necessity of balancing the budget, Premier Sarraut indicated. When...
...level was based on a gold dollar of the old weight. . . . There is no point in insisting on a return to the old gold parity, but a scheme to depreciate the dollar to uncertain limits . . . does not inspire confidence. The peril of sheer greenbackism is real and not imaginary." Chamber of Commerce. At a special meeting dominated by chop-whiskered old Leonor Fresnel Loree, the New York State Chamber of Commerce solemnly resolved that "measures should be taken with the utmost promptness looking toward the restoration of a permanent gold standard in the U. S. . . . It is of the greatest...
...bought 66,000 oz. of gold from U. S. mines. The first $2,128,000 of R. F. C. debentures issued to pay for this gold were sold in the market at a discount amounting to an interest rate of .375% (compared to .22% on Treasury bills). *The Chamber also issued a pamphlet quoting without comment from two of Grover Cleveland's messages to Congress: "At times like the present, when the evils of unsound finance threaten us, the speculator may anticipate a harvest gathered from the misfortunes of others, the capitalist may protect himself by hoarding...