Word: chambers
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...mother's 85th birthday. "I don't think my son has the slightest wish [for a third term]," said she at Hyde Park. Her son in Washington was guarded almost as though the U. S. were at war. Ringing him, barricading the approaches to the House chamber where he was to speak, were 150 Washington police, extra Secret Service details, 150 Capitol guards. They policed even the press galleries, stopped Attorney General Frank Murphy when he brushed past. Conspicuously absent from the attending Senators was Idaho's Isolationist Borah. Absent from the crowded diplomatic gallery were...
This was interpreted as a veiled warning that the Daladier Cabinet may soon outlaw the Communist Party altogether. Ever since the Hitler-Stalin pact was announced French Communist Deputies have been quietly resigning from the Party, hoping to keep their seats in the Chamber. The French equivalent of the American Federation of Labor, the C. G. T. (Confederation Generate du Travail) headed by Labor Boss Leon Jouhaux adopted a resolution which described Russia's gobbling up of three-fifths of Poland (see p. 29) as "a premeditated treason consummated against peace, and an act of treachery toward the proletariat...
Beethoven: Quartet in F Major, Op. 18, No. 1 (Coolidge Quartet; Victor: 6 sides). Best recording to date by the top U. S. chamber-music ensemble...
...officer, two civilian observers, 22 enlisted men were dead below. Most of the bodies were found, as expected, in the after torpedo room. One of the 26 who went down was missing, presumably washed overboard while the Squahis was being raised and towed. After inspecting the chamber, odorous with old death, Lieut.-Commander Charles B. Momsen said they must have drowned swiftly and mercifully, too quickly even to reach for the Momsen "escape lungs" which he invented. Commander Momsen also observed that the Navy could improve its arrangements for salvage after future submarine disasters...
...week plants like Martin and Lockheed were hiring men as fast as they could be interviewed. They were not greatly worried about a shortage of skilled mechanics because army and civilian schools were turning them out by the hundreds. Black-browed West Pointer president Jack Jouett of the Aeronautical Chamber of Commerce, who knows the capabilities of U. S. Aircraft factories as well as he knows where to find the throttle in any military airplane, calculated that within six months the industry could step up its production to 1,000 planes a month...