Word: chamber
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Dates: during 1930-1930
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Colombia: Declared a legal holiday, held open-air masses, military reviews. Villagers of San Pedro Alejandro eagerly awaited a golden wreath being flown from New York by Pan American Airways. In the farmhouse where Bolivar died, a golden crown was unveiled in the death chamber by President Olaya Herrera...
That amiable greybeard Prime Minister Theodore Steeg lost three members from his already enfeebled ministry last week,* but guaranteed the life of his government for at least three weeks by adjourning Parliament until the second Tuesday in January, the fateful 13th. The political spot-light shifted from the Chamber of Deputies to its parliamentary commission investigating the famous Oustric Scandal. Observers realized that until former Prime Minister Andre Tardieu was completely whitewashed of any complicity in the swindles of Banker Albert Oustric it would be impossible for him to succeed to the prime ministry on the fall of the Steeg...
...Only veteran and distinguished Senators may have Senate chamber funerals. Some others thus honored: Ohio's Hanna, Georgia's Bacon, Ohio's Burton, Wyoming's Warren, Kentucky's Beck. -0ne John Grable, 21, confessed last week to robbing the home of their father, Herbert Hoover Jr. at Pasadena, Calif...
...with the mandate of Prime Minister can count, no matter what his views, on the support of Le Temps, but last week even this most "official" organ turned against the Government. On every hand editors predicted that the Steeg cabinet would surely fall when it faced the Chamber of Deputies this week. Three politicians who had accepted posts under M. Steeg as under- secretaries were scared out, resigned, explaining lamely that "the complexion of the cabinet was not exactly as at first thought...
...Prime Minister of all time. For once the "power of the press" was being thrown full into the scale to aid a newspaperman. Chances that M. Tardieu would succeed himself as Prime Minister brightened hourly. If in Paris there were some guilty editorial consciences, this fact eased them: both Chamber and Senate are so evenly divided between Right and Left that no real preponderance exists. The last vote of confidence in the lower house supported the Tardieu cabinet by a Right majority of 64. Few hours later the Senate upset this same cabinet by a Left majority of eight...