Word: chambers
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...series of risky experiments, however noble. Upon that record, could Finance Minister Auriol succeed in floating 104 billions in bonds? From the box of absent Speaker Edouard Herriot, who was abed with bronchitis, the Premier's charming wife, vivacious Mme Blum, decided to sit through the final Chamber debate on whether to issue the bonds. Just behind her sat the wife of Conservative Deputy Paul Bietrix, and the speech Premier Blum was making gradually amused Mme Bietrix more & more, until finally she greeted its close with a derisive shriek of laughter. Snapped Mme Blum, turning around furiously, "Hush...
...leaving in the lurch the French proletariat-but the Communists and Socialists did not last week leave M. Blum, as English Laborites turned from Mr. MacDonald. The Reds scowled, but voted for the financial volte-face of Blum, the Pinks voted for it, and virtually the whole Chamber voted for it by the tremendous majority of 470 to 46. That might seem excruciatingly funny to some women, but to the enormous majority of steadygoing French folk it seemed like a godsend. Two nights later they heard on the radio President Albert Lebrun, a figure much esteemed for his dignified embodiment...
Hotheaded, trumpet-voiced Rexist Leon Degrelle, leader of Belgium's Catholic-Irascist Party, decided last week that he wants to be a member of Belgium's Parliament. He ordered one of the 21 Rexists in the Chamber of Deputies to resign, forced the Government to announce a by-election, nominated himself a candidate. From smart young Liberal Premier Professor Paul van Zeeland came a gallant countermove. He decided to resign his own seat, declared that he himself would oppose Rexist Degrelle "as a non-partisan candidate," then hurried off to the Royal Palace to confer with King Leopold...
Cause of Germany's paroxysm was found to be a proposal by Mayor LaGuardia that adjoining a proposed "temple of tolerance" at New York's 1939 World's Fair there be erected "a chamber of horrors" containing a figure of "that brown-shirted fanatic who is now menacing the peace of the world...
Mayor LaGuardia cheerfully repeated his remark, Showman Billy Rose put in a bid for the chamber of horrors fair concession, and the German press still growled, but the latter remained conspicuously silent about another passage in the "dirty Talmud Jew's" remarks. He had also said: "I mean the Hitler Government . . . irresponsible . . . because it is . . . financially bankrupt." And a statement much more injurious to Germany than Mayor LaGuardia's appeared last week on the front page of the New York Times, in a cable from Berlin Correspondent Otto D. Tolischus calling German finance "a blacker art than ever...