Word: motioned
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...First Lady took shears, neatly clipped the paragraph, pinned it to a sheet of paper, scrawled on the paper: ''Must this man go? E. R." A servant carried the paper to Presidential Secretary Stephen T. Early. Mr. Early started to set the executive office machinery in motion, then abruptly halted it. The President's Negro valet, Irvin Henry McDuffy, friend of Steve and also a reader of the Evening Star, had shown it to the President and the President had already sent word to the head of Washington's police traffic division that Steve...
...Paris inquired: "Does Premier Chautemps know that among those listed for the Directoire 'without being consulted' was his own War Minister, M. Edouard Daladier?" Whatever the Premier or the Chamber knew last week, the ''Battle of Mud" came to an abrupt end when a motion that the Chamber appoint a commission to investigate L'Affaire Starisky was defeated 360 to 229-the Socialists, who had been verbally lashing the Government, supporting it with their votes. To seal this victory the Left's great champion, M. Edouard Herriot, made a booming plea for a vote...
...Juan sings a glib, impatient seduction at a peasant girl. He shakes with emotion and lack of breath, turns from girl to audience on the high notes, putting out his hands, palms up, for applause. He is more convincing and formidable than any living operatic Don Juan. Every motion he makes is a shrewd and funny parody of the way human beings move. His chief difference from a man is that he moves, not upward from his feet but downward from his shoulders, barely touching the floor...
...will not do so until the Supreme Court has built a broad basis for the executive claims. The emergency basis of the Minnesota Mortgage decision is a trifling trump in a game so large, and so far reaching, as that which the President's compromise has set in motion. The alternative is to strike, while the emergency Iron it hot, for a Supreme Court decision that will rehabilitate the bases of administrative jurisdiction, and make the Federal Trade Commission even stronger than it was before Ben Avon's axe fell; despite the optimism of the administration newspapers, there...
...hundred colored slides and four thousand feet of film make up this pictorial account of the ascent of Mount Crillon in Alaska. The White Mountain Ski-runners' Club has sponsored Washburn's movie which the Boston Transcript termed the most wonderful ski motion picture ever seen. Harvard men may attend by paying $.75, instead of the general admission...