Word: chambers
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...circulation Freeman, 1921-24), an essayist of distinction, an authority on Rabelais, a biographer of Thomas Jefferson and Henry George. He wrote in an urbane, aloof style with an odd characteristic. At unpredictable points, caustic opinions on politics abruptly intruded, as if someone occasionally interrupted an hour of chamber music by reading well-written editorials from the Boston Evening Transcript. Editor Nock considered himself a radical...
...Cachin speech was the more notable because he is the most "regular" of French Communists, always voicing the Moscow line; everybody in the Chamber knew that Marcel Cachin had not had an idea of his own for 40 years. Cachin said...
...felt somewhat the same. The U.S. Supreme Court ruling against the basing-point method of setting prices in cement (TIME, May 10) had been so vague that many businessmen were not sure what was and what wasn't legal. Last week, in answer to six questions from the Chamber of Commerce of the State of New York, the Federal Trade Commission took most of the mystery out of the court's decision...
...them the best way of perpetuating the taste she has done so much to develop. The many programs she has presented at Harvard are typical of what the Foundation has done in every major college in the country. The resulting clamor for more testifies to her success in popularizing chamber music...
Despite Council denials, Fisher reaffirmed his accusations that his trial was a "star chamber session" which impeached him because of "political reasons" and as proof cited the political makeup of the Council: "seven confirmed Democrats, three confirmed Republicans, one leftist, two, in my opinion sincere independents, and three whose politics I have no way of judging...