Word: chambers
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Dates: during 1940-1940
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...Majority Leadership to succeed the late Speaker Joe Byrns of Tennessee. Yet he had to shepherd much unruly legislation through the House, keep a restive majority in hand (with the aid of Majority Leader Sam Rayburn who was elected his successor just before the state funeral in the House Chamber) at a time when impatience with Congress, impatience with the delays natural to democracy, was seeping through the U. S. Withal he sponsored some legislation of his own (cotton control, farm-tenant aid, soldiers' rehabilitation). Loyal to Franklin Roosevelt at every pinch save one (in 1938 he refused...
...Chamber music is an art form whose devotees take it with sometimes painful seriousness. Ordinary folk almost feel that they should take off their shoes before they go in to listen. National Broadcasting Co. shares the general reverence, but last summer it began giving out "chamber music" that was different. Last week an NBC program, whose popularity had lifted it from a Sunday-afternoon to a Monday-evening spot (9 p.m. E. D. S. T.), started with a bland announcement...
Called by Mr. Coulter, the Massachusetts Society for the Prevention of Cruelty to Animals sent an ambulance around and carried off the mice in a box, to be delivered into the painless grip of a lethal gas chamber...
...session of what may or may not prove to be the 38th Federal Congress of Mexico. For 65 minutes he talked-about inter-American solidarity, about the justice of his oil expropriations, about the success of his regime in decreasing illiteracy and redistributing land to the peasants. In the Chamber's jampacked diplomatic gallery German Minister Baron Rüdt von Collenberg-Bödigheim listened with Teutonic impassiveness as other speakers swung into attacks on totalitarianism. Thinner-skinned Italian Minister Count Alberto Marchetti di Muriaglio frowned, grimaced, twitched. Behind them U. S. Ambassador Josephus Daniels, knowing no Spanish...
...well-bred San Francisco Lees collapses, Lucy Lee, Mrs. Lee and Mrs. Edington set about to earn their own livings with glares at Labor and the New Deal. Mrs. Edington rejects a $100,000 cinema offer, strides firmly through her world of clubs and the Women's Chamber of Commerce, creates a fine job for herself at the age of 60. Mild Mrs. Lee teaches bridge to the new-rich. Brash young Lucy resolves to have a career before marriage, teaches tennis, finds fear of a Chinatown plot leading her into the arms of her patient suitor. Though...