Word: chambers
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...scarcely once in a generation. Part of the spectacle was purely visual: day after day seats on the Senate floor, of which three-quarters are usually vacant, were occupied by as many as 60 of the 96 Senators. On roll calls as many as 80 appeared personally in the chamber to vote. But the most important part of the spectacle was political: senior members of the majority party, led by the Administration's own floor leader were fighting one of the Administration's own bills. It was something to see and hear...
With this neat bit of logic, Secretary of the Treasury Henry Morgenthau Jr. last week opened the great 1937 hunt for rich tax dodgers launched so suddenly by him and Franklin Roosevelt early this month (TIME, June 14). The hunt meet was not in the customary inquisition chamber, the Senate's barnlike caucus room, but in the House Ways & Means Committeeroom, which has much better acoustics, handsome indirect lighting, and comfortable chairs of green-blue leather. On the long bench were little placards identifying the committeemen for the audience. In the centre sat old Representative Bob Doughton of Laurel...
Last week King George, Queen Elizabeth, Queen Mother Mary, and 24 other knights-youngest, the Duke of Norfolk; oldest, the Duke of Portland; newest, Earl Baldwin-assembled in the Waterloo Chamber of Windsor Castle. Each wore a mantle of dark blue velvet with a crimson hood, a black velvet hat with white ostrich plumes. The only members of the Order who did not wear a gold-encrusted dark-blue garter below the left knee were the two Queens. Instead they wore them on the left...
...last French election gave the Popular Front a "safe majority" in the Chamber composed of Radical Socialists, Socialists and Communists. These last have no Cabinet seats. At the emergency session it was the Radical Socialists and Socialists who fell to quarreling, with luckless Premier Blum fluttering between them in his accustomed role as the dove of Popular Front peace. After almost two hours' wrangle it was decided to ask Parliament to grant the Cabinet dictatorial powers over French economy and finance for six weeks. Once these had been voted, the Cabinet could then in a more tranquil atmosphere decide...
...practitioner named Mrs. Genevieve Smith, longtime friend of Miss Harlow, read from the Psalms and from Science & Health by Mary Baker Eddy (Nelson Eddy is no kin), recited the Lord's Prayer and a trenchant 48-word eulogy. The body was then taken to a $25,000 mortuary chamber purchased by William Powell, the inconsolable actor who was to have become Miss Harlow's fourth husband. Thus was concluded another notable interment at the institution which Promoter Hubert Eaton has made as indispensable to Hollywood's great dead as a footprint in the cement at Sid Grauman...