Word: chambers
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Charles Thomson Rees Wilson of Cambridge University invented a "cloud chamber" in which tracks made by sub-atomic particles could be seen. At about the same time Hans Geiger, now of the University of Tubingen, invented a cylindrical "counter" which crackles every time a particle enters it. Physicists use both devices, alone or together, to record the presence of and identify cosmic rays, gamma rays, X-rays, photons, electrons, protons, positrons, neutrons...
...austere, stone cool halls and courtyard of the U. S. Chamber of Commerce headquarters in Washington are reminiscent of the new Supreme Court Building. In them, during the New Deal, some 2,000 Chambermen have assembled annually to exchange sentiments neither judicial nor austere nor cool. Last week, when the Chamber convened for its 28th annual meeting with an attendance less than half of last year's, it was chiefly concerned not with baiting the New Deal but with facing the great reality of the National Labor Relations...
Next day long-nosed Hamper Sibley, the Chamber's retiring president, got a little closer to the point. "It is obvious," he said, "that the broad question of employer-employe relationship is far from settled. It cannot be settled by force. It cannot be settled by attempting to throw legal safeguards around the rights of one of the groups concerned, but sharply limiting the rights of other groups. . . . Bargaining cannot be one-sided...
Thus adjured and fortified, the Chamber got down to cases Tuesday afternoon in one of the longest luncheon sessions on convention records. From one o'clock to four, while a thunderstorm swept hail over the Capital, members watched their cigaret butts accumulate, groped to formulate ideas out of their resentment at the long disregarded law which the Supreme Court had upheld. Across Lafayette Park in the White House, President Roosevelt was giving his last press conference before entraining for New Orleans (see p. 15). At the convention tables, the Chamber-men to whom he had refused for the third...
...concluding session next day the Chamber authorized its directors to draft a program for amendment of the Wagner Act on nine points: 1) a curb on sit-down strikes; 2) prohibition of political contri-butions by unions; 3) outlawing of "intimidation" by unions; 4) limitation of picketing to "giving information"; 5) compulsory arbitration of labor disputes in public utilities; 6) prohibition of strikes by Government employes; 7) public registration of both employer and employe groups negotiating labor agreements; 8) definition of ''unlawful labor practices" under the Wagner Act; 9) establishment of the responsibility of Labor. Elected president...