Word: chambers
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Dates: during 1940-1940
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Onetime Bolivian Foreign Minister Eduardo Diez de Medina squirmed uncomfortably on his bench in the La Paz Chamber of Deputies one day last week. From the packed galleries above him angry Bolivian spectators hissed & booed, kept up a steady chant of "Down with the Jews! Death to the Jews!" Jingoistic Congressmen waggled their fingers under his nose, made long speeches about national honor. Then, with deliberate gait, gumshoeing Deputy Jordan Velasco strode forward, lifted his eyes to the balconies, bellowed out: "I am proud of being an accuser. And, without wishing to compare myself with Zola, I accuse." Defendant Diez...
...week's end Bolivia's Chamber of Deputies, having voted to continue the trial, had turned the evidence over to its Judiciary and Police Committee for further investigation...
...outstanding work for labor and national defense Pittsburgh's Junior Chamber of Commerce named C. I. O.'s tough, temperate Philip Murray as its first "Pittsburgh Man of the Year...
...Trapp Family Choir, also on Victor Records. The Trapps' unaffected singing of this delightful music is a treat for jaded ears. The singing has that perfect fusion and sympathy of all voices one finds among the members of a fine string-quartet, and you will not tire of the chamber flavor as you might the brilliance of a larger chorus. Also in the line of vocal music are the ancient French carols sung on a single Columbia Record by the Strasbourg Cathedral Choir, music more of the folk quality than the Bach chorales, but of a similar fresh spirit...
Last week Utilitarian Foshay was starting on his fourth year as paid secretary of the Salida Chamber of Commerce. The annual membership drive was under way and he was working like a beaver. Back of him were three years of success. Salida was on its way to becoming a ghost town in the early '30s. The Denver & Rio Grande Western took away its shops and offices, two mines closed down, 3,000 citizens moved away. First thing W. B. did was advertise. On the highways he set up strings of hearts bearing the admonition "Follow the Hearts to Salida...