Word: chambers
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Rarely, except at Presidential inaugurals, does the entire democratic hierarchy of the United States gather under one roof. But so they did last week, in the grey-&-gilt chamber of the House of Representatives, with remarkably few absentees-the President and his executive Cabinet, both bodies of the legislative branch, all eight members of the Supreme Court-to celebrate the 150th anniversary of the first session of Congress...
...quarters in the imposing Spanish Embassy in Belgrave Square. Opposition M. P.s cried "Shame!" and "Betrayal!" in the House of Commons when Mr. Chamberlain announced the recognition of Generalissimo Franco; in France Socialist leader Léon Blum felt "nauseated" when M. Daladier made his announcement to the Chamber of Deputies. But both the Chamber and the House were expected to approve by large majorities. For both countries the eight-year-old Spanish Republic had ceased to exist...
Album of Early Choral Music (Trapp Family Choir; Victor: 10 sides). Salzburg's singing family (TIME, Dec. 19) warbles a program of quaint archaic vocal chamber music...
Ever since old Memorial Hall -- still standing, in spite of recent reports--was converted from a dining hall to an examination chamber, graduate students have been in need of an acceptable substitute. Restaurants about the Square have served as a sort of stop-gap, and so prospered under the arrangement that they were ready to fight even the small student cooperative which is now safely located in Andover Hall. Their fight, which probably included pressure on the Cambridge Savings Bank to deny an important lease, was unsuccessful, and today the cooperative is clear evidence that the problem can be solved...
...boycotters such facts are reason for gloating. Not to be overlooked, however, is the fact that foreign trade is a give-&-take affair. Last week, for example, a spokesman for the new German-American Chamber of Commerce of the Pacific Coast pointed out that German purchases of U. S. dried prunes and apricots had dwindled from 33% of the total exported in 1929 to 8.8% in 1937. And the lard dickerings demonstrated how U. S. farmers are suffering from the drop in German trade. In pre-Hitler years Germany often bought as much as 30%, of U. S. lard exports...