Word: motioned
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Movie Actress Shirley Temple, as being manager of this bank's Santa Monica office. This is incorrect. Mr. Temple lives at Santa Monica but is in charge of California Bank's office at Washington Street and Vermont Avenue in Los Angeles, a district in which all the major motion picture companies maintain distributing offices. California Bank is one of the large local metropolitan banks with 55 offices in Los Angeles city and county, the Santa Monica office being situated in the outlying beach community of the same name...
...Raised cheer on cheer for that popular John Bull, bottle-nosed Acting Prime Minister Stanley Baldwin, as he championed the Government's big Air Force program in homely phrases against a Labor motion of censure and let fall a sentence which rang round the world. "Since the day of the air the old frontiers are gone," cried Orator Baldwin, "and when you think of the defense of England you no longer think of the white cliffs of Dover, but you think of the Rhine. That is where, today, our frontier lies...
Amid fresh cheers for His Majesty's Government, which will up the number of British war planes from 844 to 1,304 in the next five years, the House threw out the Labor motion of censure by a smash vote...
...chorus girls shrilled "The Star Spangled Banner" but to most of those gathered in the grand ballroom of Manhattan's Hotel Pennsylvania one night last week the result was so much meaningless lip motion. With better understanding they watched a female quintet who indicated "rockets' red glare" spelling out "rockets" with their hands, touching two fingers to their lips ("red"), throwing open palms out from widened eyes ("glare"). Thus began New York's quietest convention in 51 years-the 17th Triennial of the National Association of the Deaf, which has not met in Manhattan since its first...
...Albert Julius Berres, onetime American Federation of Laborite, secretary to the Producers' Committee of the Motion Picture Producers of America...