Word: chambers
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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When Sammartino rose in the Chamber last June to denounce the President for a series of articles he had written for the U.S. press (TIME, July 12), he was asking for real trouble. Under Argentina's battered constitution, members of Congress may be expelled by a two-thirds vote for "gross misconduct." Sammartino's Peronista enemies decided that "gross misconduct" included offenses against presidential dignity...
...obeisance to the lash nor to dance to Madame Pompadour's tune," said he. "This is not a fashionable nightclub or the anteroom of a palace. It is the parliament of a free people, and it should be made plain to the people here & now that this Chamber will not obey the commands of meddling old colonels, nor heed orders given in perfumed letters from the boudoir of any ruler...
...deputies handed in their resignations from Congress. This week a party convention will act on them. The party's decision will be a grave one. The Senate is already 100% Peronista. Should the party reject the resignations, thus keep alive political opposition in the Perón-dominated Chamber? Or should it accept, hoping somehow to force a crisis that would embarrass...
Last week Violinist Griller had some news that he did not tell the audience in Wheeler Hall: for the next three years, chamber music students at the University of California could watch and learn from the Griller String Quartet at work. The Griller would be the university's first "quartet in residence...
...they would. But in the entertainment and resort businesses, which are usually the first to feel price resistance, there were contrary signs. In Chicago last week, row upon row of empty seats forced Balaban & Katz to slash some prices almost 50% in its six Loop moviehouses. The Cape Cod Chamber of Commerce complained that many visitors were so intent on cutting expenses that they slept in their cars overnight...