Word: chambers
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...unadmired," in contradistinction to admired Senator Hatch, TIME had in mind the Senate's estimate of the two men. The day Mr. Chavez was sworn in to the Senate, a group of that body's most distinguished members (Norris, Johnson, Nye, La Follette, Shipstead) pointedly left the chamber. That Senator Chavez is tea-colored, like the good U. S. constituents who elect him, is neither disgraceful nor untrue...
Into Jonkheer de Geer's Cabinet went the mistake-makers, representatives of parties holding 73 of the Lower Chamber's 100 seats. Only die-hard Tories, Communists and Nazis were left out. There were two members of the Christian Historical Party, two Catholics, two Socialists, four independents. Bald, scholarly Johan Willem Albarda, head of the Socialist Party in the Lower Chamber for 14 years, became Minister of Public Works, thus leading the Socialists into a Netherlands Cabinet for the first time despite that party's regular claim to 20% of the country's vote...
Forty other Senators sat in the chamber, grimly set on stiff-arming everything that might slow up adjournment. And between his afternoon naps in the cloakroom they had the support of Vice President Garner, who had a ticket to Texas in his wallet...
Most important political decree was one prolonging the life of the present Chamber of Deputies until June 1942, or two years beyond the four-year term for which the Deputies were elected in 1936. Only precedent for prolonging the Chamber occurred in 1918, during the World War, but even so there was no exact parallel. Then the Chamber, rather than the Cabinet, voted itself one more year in office...
...does Whistler's Mother, and ebony-skinned Janitor Felix Nelson (Vedder's The African Sentinel), rehearse their tableaux as religiously as any Oberammergau Passion Player. This year, with the Assistance League of nearby Santa Ana offering $200 in art prizes, and the buildup of the local Chamber of Commerce corralling 1,500 spectators into every performance, The Festival of Arts at last got on a paying basis. Jubilant Director Ropp hoped to net $4,000, looked forward to the day when his pageant would have its own permanent outdoor theatre...