Word: motioned
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Labor Party, thus beside itself with rage at the National Government, made the tactical mistake of proposing a motion of censure on the issue of relieving unemployment just the day after the number of unemployed in the United Kingdom was revealed last week to have fallen to 2,000,000-the lowest figure in five years...
Introduced by fiery Laborite Arthur Greenwood, the motion proposed, with Socialist-intellectual wordiness, to censure the "Government's failure to produce a considered plan to cope with unemployment...
...Father Coughlin said in Detroit a few months ago that Jews have only three enemies to fear-Bernard Baruch, Eddie Cantor and the motion picture industry...
Said the Museum's President A. Conger Goodyear: "The art of the motion picture is the only art peculiar to the 20th Century. As an art it is practically unknown and unstudied. Many who are well acquainted with modern painting, literature, drama and architecture are almost wholly ignorant of the work of such great directors as Pabst, Pudovkin, or Seastrom and of the creative stages in the development of men like Griffith and Chaplin. Yet the films which these and other men made have had an immeasurably great influence on the life and thought of the present generation...
...About 1909, George Melies, a magician of the Theatre Robert Houdin in Paris, gave the motion picture new life by applying the camera to feats of magic using fade-outs, dissolves and double exposures...