Word: motioned
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...would come to his aid-he could stick a Blue Eagle feather in his hat and call it macaroni or a great personal victory over the New Deal. Besides, throngs of visiting Shriners in the galleries made it a fine afternoon for speechmaking. So, making a parliamentary motion to get the floor...
...being called Huey Long slipped out of the Chamber for brief relief. When he came back he asked for an opportunity to retire gracefully: "Mr. President, I am not anxious to proceed too long. If we can get a unanimous-consent agreement to vote by noon tomorrow on the motion I have made I shall have no objection to voting at that time...
...York Times: ". . . Color will become an integral motion picture element in the next few years." After a day's thought the Times editorialized thus: ". . . The ordinary black-&-white pictures are likely to seem to us hereafter anemic, old-fashioned and unreal...
...James Roosevelt, 80, mother of the President, resigned her honorary vice-presidency of the Motion Picture Re-search Council. Her reason: "I'm much too busy and too old to do anything...
...first store to install airconditioning, first to establish branches in the city's rich & regal suburbs where the Strawbridges and the Clothiers have long been socialites. It was first to adopt an efficiency filing system by which its 125,000 charge accounts are photographed with a motion picture camera and the films stored in a single cabinet. And last week Strawbridge & Clothier made national news with another innovation...