Word: chambers
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Dates: during 1940-1940
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Business. In Washington 2,200 of the most representative businessmen in the U. S. met in the 28th annual session of the U. S. Chamber of Commerce (see p. 83). Reporters noted that underlying all the routine denunciations of the New Deal was evident alarm at the course of the war, a concern coupled with a gloomy, fatalistic belief, expressed only off the record, that inevitably, eventually, the U. S. will get into...
...Budapest, Dr. Geza Szullo, onetime champion of Hungarian interests in Czecho-Slovakia, told the Upper Chamber of Parliament that German-protected Slovakia was systematically abusing its Magyar minority, that Slovak propaganda was "making attempts to spoil the harmony between Germany and Hungary." This made the Senators so angry that Foreign Minister Count Stephen Csáky had to reply with a speech that was scarcely less inflammatory. Said he: "Hungary may have to take risks for the protection of her national honor. The Hungarian Government . . . will act at the appropriate moment." Germany shipped tanks and supplies to eastern Slovakia, concentrated...
...maneuvers for three weeks (TIME, May 6 et ante), Dutch military authorities last week swooped down on suspect strongholds in The Hague, Haarlem, Amsterdam. They carted away and interned 21 Nazis, Communists, etc., including National Socialist Party Editor M. M. Rost van Tonninggen, member of The Netherlands Second Chamber. That something was afoot in the Low Countries was indicated by the fact that within 24 hours the Belgian Government put visa requirements in effect on her Netherlands and Luxembourg frontiers, arrested two Flemish Nationalists...
Formed in 1912 because President Taft (among others) wanted to hear the Voice of Business, the U. S. Chamber of Commerce today has some 750,000 members, 1,700 affiliated local Chambers, a de luxe Indiana limestone pile in Washington. There 3,000 C. of C. delegates last week gathered to let the Voice be heard. As it has been every year since 1934, its dominant note was anti-New Deal. But it had lost much of its bitterness, gained some of its optimism...
...Raker Act amended, a proposal of the San Francisco Chamber of Commerce. This Ickes and many a conservationist would oppose...