Word: chambers
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Dates: during 1950-1950
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...Senate. No scientist (he was a wealthy trial lawyer, and a New Deal officeholder before being elected to the Senate), he had been shocked into grave concern during long, secret sessions of the Joint Congressional Committee on Atomic Energy over which he had presided. For 30 minutes the Senate chamber was still as he spoke...
...Boston, and got an instructive lesson. They were well briefed on Boston's historic role in U.S. history, and they met Mayor John B. Hynes. Then they tagged happily after the mayor's secretary down the city-hall corridors to the half-opened doors of the council chamber...
Next day most of Boston hurried to make amends. The chamber of commerce invited the Japanese to lunch. Man-in-the-street polls showed that the citizenry was ashamed of its council. Massachusetts' Governor Paul A. Dever welcomed the Japanese to the gold-domed State House, where the legislature had just passed a resolution of censure for the Boston council...
...John F. Cronin, assistant director of the National Catholic Welfare Conference, A.F.L. Economist Boris Shishkin, C.I.O. Secretary-Treasurer James B. Carey, Libbey-Owens-Ford's President John D. Biggers, RCA's President Frank Folsom, Macy's President Jack I. Straus, and U.S. Chamber of Commerce President Herman Steinkraus. Their final report called for nothing less than revolution in the basic approach to labor-management relations...
...plane manufacturers behind the British in the development of jet transport planes? Last week Joseph J. O'Connell, chairman of the Civil Aeronautics Board, told the Los Angeles Chamber of Commerce that the reason, in effect, was indecision by the planemakers and confusion in Washington...