Word: chambers
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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After failing to form a new Cabinet fortnight ago, M. Paul Emile Janson went before Parliament last week as head of another Cabinet, the first Liberal Premier of Belgium since 1884. Brussels political experts figure he has a majority of 70 in the Chamber. In effect M. Janson simply reformed the Cabinet of nonparty Economist Professor Paul van Zeeland (TIME, Nov. 1), expected by many last week to return as Premier after the courts confirm a Parliamentary vote which recently cleared him of charges in connection with a scandal at the National Bank of Belgium (TiME, Sept. 20 et ante...
...decades ago he turned from such ventures to the writing of opera, produced Shanewis, first U. S. opera to survive two seasons in the repertory of the Metropolitan Opera House, and A Witch of Salem, given by the Chicago Civic Opera Company. Then he turned to orchestral pieces and chamber music. An indefatigable worker, he has also written over 300 songs...
...design. After graduation in 1935, he became a professional diver, worked on several successful salvaging jobs, brought up nothing but an 1851 penny from the hulk of the West M or eland which sank in Lake Michigan in 1854. He started experimenting with helium mixtures in a decompression chamber at Milwaukee County General Hospital...
...months ago when the business curve was still on the rise, Chairman Colby Mitchell Chester of General Foods Corp. addressed the Boston Chamber of Commerce. Speaking not only for the makers of Grape Nuts, Post Toasties and Sanka Coffee but also, as head of the National Association of Manufacturers, for a vast and potent slice of U. S. management, Mr. Chester concluded with this prophetic declaration...
...active publicity director is a onetime reporter named James P. Selvage, who works under the organization's paid and unpublicized Executive Vice President Walter Bertheau Weisenburger. Onetime managing editor of Samuel Clemens' old Hannibal (Mo.) Morning Journal, Mr. Weisen-burger went to N.A.M. from the St. Louis Chamber of Commerce, where he was serving as paid head at the time Lindbergh flew to Paris in the Spirit of St. Louis...