Word: chambers
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...will get the president of the Protestant Ministers' Union, the Catholic Bishop and the Jewish Rabbi, together with the President of the Chamber of Commerce, to join with you in leading a mob on the jail, I will turn the prisoner over to you-otherwise you will never get him, for I now have the jail packed with National Guardsmen." No mob came and the prisoner was legally executed about 90 days later...
...Canton, Ohio, anti-strike sentiment quickened when the chamber of commerce polled 6,465 steel workers by mail. Three clergymen employed to count the returns reported 3,633 votes for returning to work, 216 for continuing the strike, a majority, although 2,516 ballots were cast out as palpable forgeries, not being printed on the same paper or with the same perforations as those mailed...
...publicize Los Angeles, its Junior Chamber of Commerce this spring decided on a "national aquatic show." To publicize the aquatic show, Los Angeles Photographer Eyere Powell last week made striking photographs of Swimmer Katherine Rawls diving through the bull's-eye of a large canvas target and U. S. High-diving champion Ruth Jump flying through the air holding a bow & arrow in a "Diana Dive...
...buildings, of which four, low and glass-sided, will be up and ready for use this autumn. Architect John M. Cooper last week filed with Los Angeles authorities plans and specifications for the first, an $85,000 administration centre. Quietly directing operations from an office in Los Angeles' Chamber of Commerce Building, Mr. Pepperdine has already lined up a president, Batsell Baxter of Tennessee's David Lipscomb College, a faculty recruited from Duke, University of Colorado, University of California, University of Oklahoma and several small southern schools. Pious Founder Pepperdine is a.pillar of the Church of Christ...
...critic Henderson never minced matters. He called Marion Talley "A Chamber of Commerce soprano with a phonograph voice." He wrote of a soprano singing Iphigénie en Aulide that "she seemed a fit subject for the sacrifice." Because the Metropolitan put on too many Fausts in the 18905 he called it "Das Faustspielhaus...