Word: motioned
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Chosen last week by the clubwomen and educators who compose the National Board of Review of Motion Pictures as the ten most entertaining pictures of 1934, were...
...condemn indecent and immoral motion pictures and those which glorify crime or criminals. . . . I acknowledge my obligation to form a right conscience about pictures that are dangerous to my moral life. As a member of the Legion of Decency, I pledge myself to remain away from them. I promise, further, to stay away altogether from places of amusement which show them as a matter of policy...
Last week's official Catholic "Motion Picture Guide" listed 37 suitable "Class A" pictures ("unobjectionable and suitable for public entertainment"). Listed along with not a few mediocre films were Anne of Green Gables, Babes in Toyland, Baby Take a Bow, Marie Galante, One Night of Love, The Count of Monte Cristo, Great Expectations, Judge Priest, Mrs. Wiggs of the Cabbage Patch, Treasure Island, What Every Woman Knows...
...fresh vote of confidence in the Chamber, 457 to 120, defeating a Socialist motion to take away from Foreign Minister Pierre Laval the treasured "secret funds" of the Quai d'Orsay, traditionally used to sweeten the French Press. In effect the Chamber thus endorsed a double-barreled speech by M. Laval last week in which he fired blandishments and menaces at Adolf Hitler: "We shall ask of other countries that they assure conjointly with us a police mission for the eventual re-establishment of order. . . . Chancellor Hitler affirms his wish for peace. We ask him by associating in the policy...
...SAKE GIVE US GRUBB. Now 72, slight, wiry and a Democrat, Judge Grubb runs his courtroom smartly, shames attorneys who waste his time. Born & bred in Cincinnati, he went to Yale with a brother of President Taft. His opinion last week was handed down in denying a TVA motion to dismiss an injunction petition filed by a group of Alabama Power Co. stockholders who are trying to block the sale of $2,200,000 of property...