Word: chambers
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Imperial Austria went to Rome last week to act out in good earnest the situation which Playwright Robert Emmet Sherwood and his U. S. producers made much hay with as Reunion in Vienna. In Rome's Imperial Hotel, they bowed their heads and bent their knees in a chamber where, on a borrowed golden throne raised on a dais, sat Zita, last Empress of the Austro-Hungarian Empire, mother of Otto, the 20-year-old pretender to the throne of Austria, Hungary or both...
...Potter Baker, 55, was inaugurated as president of Massachusetts State College. A onetime field worker in the U. S. Forest Service, he organized forestry courses at Iowa State, built up New York State College of Forestry (largest of its kind), organized the Trade Associations Department of the U. S. Chamber of Commerce. He is a brother of Author Ray Stannard Baker (David Grayson...
...humour in this plan that cannot but be welcome to those of us who have been wondering how nine million unemployed can be loaded back on to a groaning industrial wagon without the immediate expansion, or inflation, of credit. We can issue for a moment from the praying chamber and look upon the 200 platted farms. They will reassure us. In them, surely, must lie the key to our dilemma, the happy touchstone of our hopes and quietus to our fears. The nine million of which the 200,000 are only a small part need not encumber the wagon; they...
...Abyssinia and made for Jerusalem's plateau. The wilful Queen had a fancy to prove the great King Solomon "with hard questions." Legend tells how Solomon fed skeptical Sheba heavily salted dishes. When she grew thirsty in the night, she was obliged to pass through Solomon's chamber to reach the fountain. Said she afterward. "The half was not told me: thy wisdom and prosperity exccedeth the fame which I heard" (I Kings 10: 7). From that thirst, according to Abyssinian legend, sprang the line of the present Emperor Haile Selassie ("Power of Trinity") of Abyssinia. From...
...live up to its promises"-said promises being apparently an out & out Fascist dictatorship on the Italian model. Unperturbed, little Millimetternich continued to pray, then sketched in tentative outline his plans for the new Constitution: The parliamentary system will be greatly modified, not wholly abolished. Above both chambers of Parliament will be placed a Council of State of some 20 members to be appointed by the President and smacking vaguely of Benito Mussolini's Fascist Grand Council. In the new Upper Chamber will sit representatives of Austria's economic and professional groups and provincial chambers. The present Austrian...