Word: chambers
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Business reported hopefully the outlook in their own industrial spheres. A committee of 72 was formed under Julius Barnes, board chairman, of the U. S. Chamber of Commerce, to survey U. S. business, to develop solutions, to make business line-bucks, the economic end-runs, industrial off-tackle plays, suggested by his fellow Julius. Sample problem: Automobile dealers pressed by manufacturers from above with new cars, overstocked from below with used cars...
...Senate clerk stepped inside the House Chamber last week and announced in a loud voice: "A quorum of the Senate is assembled and the Senate is ready to proceed to business." The House membership was instantly convulsed with merriment. Sarcastic laughter rang to the glassed ceiling. Congressmen guffawed wildly, stamped their feet in derision, mockingly applauded. The juxtaposition of the words "Senate" and "business" even brought a smile to the bland face of Speaker Nicholas Longworth as he sat in his high presiding chair with the ornate mace of office fastened to the wall at his right...
Into the Senate chamber shortly before noon one day last week limped William Scott Vare, Senator-suspect from Pennsylvania. His left side paralyzed, he leaned on a cane and the arm of his Philadelphia physician...
Fifteen minutes later, still grinning grimly, he arose and went limping out of the chamber, a Senator-reject from Pennsylvania. In the interval the Senate had refused (58 to 22) to accept him as a member because he and his friends had spent $785,000 to win the Republican nomination in the May 1926 primary.* To some Mr. Vare had been lynched, the Constitution shaken. To others the Senate had righteously purged itself of an evil influence...
...days prior Mr. Vare had hobbled into the Senate chamber to make his first and last defense. Excerpts...