Word: chambers
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...power to Wildwood, hard or soft; to her boardwalk, her auction shops', her dance halls, her shooting galleries and Bingo games. A seaside colony of 15,000, this summer Wildwood, according to her Chamber of Commerce, expects 175,000 residents, 15% more than last year...
This week nine historic oldsters for the last time this season parted the heavy curtains, filed between the marble columns, took their seats with a rustle of gowns in their leather chairs behind the mahogany bench in their temple-like Chamber of the Supreme Court of the United States. To the sentimental crowd which jammed the Court room to see this farewell appear ance, the Justices looked unusually cheer ful and healthy. Even dour Justice McReynolds was smiling as if he had swal lowed some kind of a canary. But all eyes were on Justice Willis Van Devanter, whose retirement...
...this famed Court appeared only a short time before its final session will be well preserved for history by the accompanying photograph. It is the second photograph ever taken of the Supreme Court in actual session, and the only one showing the Justices in their new chamber. The other, taken five years ago by Dr. Erich Salomon, made its first appearance in TIME Inc. publications as does this, taken last month by an enterprising amateur, a young woman who concealed her small camera in her handbag, cutting a hole through which the lens peeped, re sembling an ornament. She practiced...
...little bit." None of the Rockefeller family was with him. John D. Jr., his only son, was at Pocantico Hills near Tarrytown, N. Y. Mrs. Alta Rockefeller Prentice, his only living daughter, was at her estate at Williamstown, Mass. At the bedside in the air-conditioned chamber were Mrs. Fannie Evans, the cousin who acted as his hostesshousekeeper; his longtime valet-attendant, John H. Yordi, and his night nurse, Roy C. Sly. "His passing was peaceful," said Dr. Merryday. "He had no final message. Apparently he didn't realize he was dying." Death was attributed to sclerotic myocarditis (hardening...
Before boarding the Zeppelin Hindenburg for Europe, passengers used to wait in a bare, high-ceilinged room at the Lakehurst, N. J. Naval Air Station. Fortnight ago when fire destroyed the Hindenburg at Lakehurst (TIME, May 17), this chamber became a temporary morgue and 26 corpses lay there for two days awaiting identification and burial. Last week a Federal board of three investigators* and a crowd of newshawks sat down in the same room hopefully awaiting some clue to the disaster's cause. At week's end they had not found it but they had listened...