Word: chambers
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Franklin Roosevelt's high-flown plan to enlarge the Supreme Court. Senator McCarran was followed on the floor by Vermont's Austin and then by Illinois' Lewis who attacked the Bill. While Lewis spoke, Vice President Garner and Leader Barkley were conducting a, tour of the Chamber, stopping to chat with colleagues who wanted to amend the Bill or make long comments on it. Senator Lewis ended his speech with a challenge to the Bill's sponsor. When McCarran rose to reply, the Vice President, by this time back at his seat, cut him short...
...these attitudes was expressed several months ago when, talking to a group of Jewish women about Grover Whalen's World's Fair, Fiorello nominated Adolf Hitler for the Fair's chamber of horrors (TIME, Mar. 15). The other attitude is his consistent stand in favor of Labor. Both C.I.O. and A.F. of L. leaders in the city announced themselves for his reelection. The Republican Party may or may not back him, for its leaders have had no favors from him, but the American Labor Party, formed last summer in New York-which succeeded in delivering over...
...White River story was warmly welcomed by the nation's press, for 1937 has been a dull year for monsters. Preliminary indications were that Newport's might be the monster-of-the-year. Twelve reputable citizens bore out Discoverers Bateman and Wyatt. Farmer Bateman and the Newport chamber of commerce built a fence around the viewing spot, charged 25? admission. Signs were tacked up on all roads-"This Way to the White River Monster." The story skyrocketed when the chamber of commerce announced that Charles B. Brown, a diver from Memphis, had been hired to investigate...
...years comes under one or both categories, big German galleries have found it politic to pack their modern art collections away in cellars out of reach of Nazi bravos. Nevertheless the Nazi Ministry of Education had a wide field for its selection. Professor Adolf Ziegler of the Reich Chamber of Art, a tall young man with wavy blond hair who paints competent nudes, came from Berlin for the opening and declared...
...proved popular talk for to Socialist rank-&-filers the Senate is anathema because of the way it is elected. Deputies to the Chamber are chosen all at once by universal male suffrage, either at four-year intervals or whenever the President ascertains that no Premier can find a majority, and orders the Chamber dissolved. Senators are elected for nine-year terms, an election taking place every three years for one-third of the Senate. They are chosen not by universal suffrage but by electoral colleges whose members are Deputies or elected delegates from communes and departments. Senatorial candidates must...