Word: chambers
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Jackson Day dinner this week. While his children and grandchildren kept the White House gay during the days between Christmas and New Year's, the President put in a busy week in his study. When Congress convened this week he drove to the Capitol. There, to a packed chamber of Senators and Representatives, he an- nounced that he had finally given up hope of balancing the budget in 1939, that in attacking monopoly his Administration had no intention of attacking business as a whole, and that the current Recession was the cause of more perplexity than fear...
...worth 20% of the votes. If a Premier can then poll 20% more on his own popularity he is sure of a majority, for under Rumania's specially tailored electoral law any party winning 40% of the vote is automatically given 75% of the seats in the Lower Chamber...
Although Tatarescu's followers had won only 38.5% of the Chamber seats, the Premier claimed they had won just over 40% of the popular vote, and that that sufficed. Next the Government suddenly announced that as yet there were no official returns. Everyone already knew, however, that the main feature of the poll, apart from Tatarescu's failure to win 40%, had been tremendous gains by the so-called Rumanian Nazis...
...travelers whizz over the surface of their country, picking up such information as they can get from signboards, gasoline station attendants, road maps, Chamber of Commerce handouts. They race past the biggest factories on earth, rarely pausing to wonder what is made in them. They look out across scenery unparalleled, but only occasionally know the names of the mountain peaks or yawning canyons that take their breath away. They sail through little towns where battles have been fought, insurrections planned, U. S. history made, but usually see only what lies beside the highway as they watch for crossroads and glance...
...president of the Farm Bureau Federation. Homespun Henry Wallace and the tall, grey, calloused Alabama cotton grower were bound together not only by common interest, but power. As head of a farm organization whose 408,000 members in 40 States are a more united force than the U. S. Chamber of Commerce, 62-year-old Ed O'Neal has been since 1931 the most influential farm leader in the land. When Henry Wallace projected AAA which required a nation-wide executive setup to estimate crop acreages, the Farm Bureau's 1,800 functioning county organizations stepped into...