Word: chambers
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Dates: during 1940-1940
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Last week, before a meeting of the American Psychological Association in Atlantic City, Dr. McGraw aired her latest findings: Attempting to toilet-train two sets of male twins, she found that when very young, one member of each set reacted positively when put on the chamber, perhaps because of the stimulation of handling. But as they grew older they lost their response. Only in the last quarter of their first year, when they began to listen to the sound of water, play in the puddles they made, did the two. definitely recognize the purpose of the potty. After another lapse...
...fine English woolens. U. S. fabricators, fearing increased imports from Britain, took alarm. The U. S. cotton market jittered as Bombay prices cheapened in relation to domestic ones. Alarmed too were some U. S. exporters who compete with Britons in foreign markets, especially when the British & Latin American Chamber of Commerce, meeting in London last week, announced a new drive for exports (a drive in which a cheap free pound could be a convenient weapon...
...thirds vote. Mr. Pittman talked with straight face of the unconstitutionally of delegating this old Senate power, although he has voted consistently for such delegations throughout the last seven years. Well Key Pittman knew that in the last 25 years many reciprocal agreements have entered the Senate chamber, while none have left;* that in five years Cordell Hull has negotiated 22 such agreements; that few good citizens want a return to the old system of logrolling tariffs...
Reynaud on Force. Monger or not, little Paul Reynaud talked aggressive war as his regime, its working Chamber majority upped from one to 17 by belated switched votes and given the tardy blessing of the sulky Right by an accolade from L'Epoque Editor Henri de Kérillis, went into its second week. To London Premier Reynaud flew for a meeting of the Allied Supreme War Council, where tougher tactics toward all neutrals-and that went for the U. S. S. R.-were agreed upon...
Surprised in London last week was Spencer Williams, longtime Secretary of the American-Russian Chamber of Commerce. He was surprised because no Moscow correspondent has dared smuggle out the story of handle-bar-mustached Mr. Joseph Vissarionovich Djugashvili's latest heartthrob...