Word: chambers
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Leader Lasser, who habitually deals with recalcitrant State Legislatures by parking his followers in the Chamber, appeared with a few early arrivals in the Senate galleries just in time for adjournment. By the time the rest of his legions had poured into Washington in chartered busses and ramshackle autos to pitch their tents in West Potomac Park, there was no Legislature to intimidate. Lost, moreover, in the adjournment shuffle was the bill the march had been organized to support : a proposal introduced by Washington's Senator Lewis Schwellenbach providing for: 1) no further reductions in WPA rolls, 2) reinstatement...
While 30 marchers picketed the austere portals of the U. S. Chamber of Commerce with placards reading DON'T TREAD ON ME. slight, earnest Leader Lasser conferred with Harry Hopkins to ask whether the WPA rolls, having been cut from 2.085,000 to 1,527,000 since April, would be cut any more. Mr. Hopkins retorted that he was obliged to spread WPA funds evenly over the fiscal year, could make no promises. He asked, however, whether Leader Lasser's followers were not getting to think of their WPA jobs as a "career." Mr. Hopkins thought that...
Since then Inventor Sperry has died, his company has gone through numerous corporate changes and Mr. Morgan has held a dozen or so top-notch aviation jobs -president of Curtiss-Wright Corp., vice president of Eastern Air Transport, president of North American Aviation, president of the Aeronautical Chamber of Commerce. But he has continued to run Sperry and currently he has offices in Manhattan as president of Sperry Corp., a holding company owning Sperry Gyroscope Co., Inc., Ford Instrument Co. Inc. (rangefinders, etc.), Waterbury Tool Co. (hydraulic variable speed transmissions), Vickers. Inc. (hydraulic pumps), Intercontinent Corp. (exporters...
Roosevelt: "Almost, methinks, I am reading not from Macaulay but from a resolution of the United States Chamber of Commerce, the Liberty League, the National Association of Manufacturers or the editorials written at the behest of certain well known newspaper proprietors...
...acumen and parliamentary power that topped even his masterly obliteration of the original Court Bill last month (TIME, Aug. 2). Two minutes after the Bill had passed, a dozen Senators, admiring as much as amused by the Garner "rodeo" tactics, gathered to congratulate him and each other. Across the chamber, Senator Guffey was still flushed and angry. The Vice President walked over to console him by suggesting jovially that if he had served in the House during the Garner Speakership, he might have been better used to such procedure. With the Court issue out of the way at last...