Word: motioned
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Sanctions Committee of 52 states and asked that Britain and France receive an unlimited "mandate to seek the elements of a solution." An interjection by Poland that so momentous a decision would have to come before the League Council prevented the Committee from adopting it as a formal motion, but without a vote it was adopted anyway when the Portuguese chairman of the Committee intoned: "The members of the League assembled in this Committee have given it their full approval...
...income for 1929-31. Avoiding Manhattan, Schultz first hid in Connecticut, where he had taken up horseback riding this summer, later took refuge in New Jersey. There the Government went after him again, this time on a tax evasion indictment in the Southern New York district. Fighting a Federal motion to send him back to New York, Flegenheimer was at liberty on $50,000 bail when his enemies caught up with him in the Palace Chop House & Tavern...
Meanwhile last week His Majesty's Loyal Opposition-the Labor Party- demanded an opportunity before the snap election to present and have the House of Commons debate a motion censuring the Government for shortcomings in regard to unemployment relief. To avert this and gag the Opposition last week, Mr. Baldwin declared: "The question of unemployment is of profound importance [but] I am afraid the only thing to do in the circumstances is. in the words of the sporting papers, to change venue. A vote of censure will be moved in the country before the one tribunal by whose decision...
...capacity as Secretary of Educational Cinema, Director Benoit-Lévy was last week lecturing at Columbia University on the "Social Rôle of a Motion Picture Director...
...Liebermann matures, his style becomes more and more linear, the tonality becomes lighter and a freshness and power of draftsmanship appears. Prints of horse racing and polo games illustrate masterful drawing and a vigorous rendering of figures in violent motion...