Word: chambers
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...many of the French have evinced at the new program. During the '30's France listened reluctantly to British defence of a strong Germany against the East and paid a higher price than either Britain or the U.S. for doing so. Schuman will find little support in the French Chamber for ratification of the plan by rating the Russian danger over the German today. He must instead defend the success of the Occupation in disinfecting Germany as justification for her return to self-control...
...dependence of the French Cabinet on approval of the plan by the Chamber of Deputies is only the first crisis which a powerful Germany creates in Western Europe. In every way the solidarity of the West now rests on German fulfillment of Adenauer's promise to keep the Reich disarmed and cooperative. Social Democrat Schumacher's expulsion from the Bonn Parliament yesterday for calling Adenauer "Chancellor of the Allies" is not altogether reassuring...
...Most chamber groups never try such a varied program, or if they do, they play everything in one style. The Budapest String Quartet showed its true greatness by playing each of these pieces exactly as it should be played...
...before (notably in 1936, when the deficit after the Landon debacle was more than $1,000,000), and Kemper obviously had more on his mind than economy. It was the bipartisan foreign policy. Kemper had been much under attack as an isolationist (in 1941, as president of the U.S. Chamber of Commerce, he opposed lend-lease). His Lumbermen's Mutual Casualty Co. had sponsored Isolationist Upton Close's broadcasts during...
...South African government's official policy of apartheid-vaguely defined as "separateness" for 2,000,000 dominant whites and 8,000,000 subordinate blacks-reached an ultimate. In gold-mining Klerksdorp, at the request of the local Handelskamer (Chamber of Commerce), the town council agreed to provide separate hearses for the two races. It was unpleasant and unhealthy to contemplate, explained Councilman D. J. Piennar, that a hearse bearing a black corpse to the cemetery might next day be used to carry a white man's coffin...