Word: motioned
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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With slide and motion picture in the Eliot House dinning hall last night. Thomas Barbour '06. Professor of Zoology, told a trip through Kruger National Park, wild animal preserve in South Africa...
...College, Cambridge University; John H. Talbott, instructor in Medicine, Harvard University; Dr. F. G. Hall, Professor of Zoology, Duke University; and William Osgood Field, Jr., of New York, and R. A. Kissack, Jr., Assistant Director of the Department of Visual Education, University of Minnesota, both of whom will take motion pictures and make studies in metrology and glacierology...
...Rejected (279-to-68) a Labor motion to outlaw private arms manufacture in Great Britain. Cool, sarcastic Foreign Secretary Sir John Simon headed off demands for an armaments inquisition by making the one held by the U. S. Senate appear uncouth. In eight hours of hot debate the munitions business received the most notable airing it has ever had in the House of Commons...
...This trade is a trade in murder!" rasped Major Clement Richard Attlee, presenting Labor's motion. "Armament companies, while not the sole nor the greatest cause of war, deliberately work against peace and disarmament. Take Vickers [Britain's No. 1 armorers]. In 1932 Vickers advertised its wares in German papers-weapons forbidden to Germany by the Treaty of Versailles! And who made the anarchy in China? It exists because China is one of the best fields for selling guns and munitions. Because nationals of the Civilized World have been arming the Chinese bandits...
Francis S. Onderdonk, ardent anti-Nazi and extreme pacifist, will bring his "Peace Caravan" to Phillips Brooks House at 8 o'clock tonight, presenting his talking motion picture entitled the "Next War", as well as three short silent films...