Word: motioned
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...part of the City where lives his President and his Government. To those of us constituted with natural inclinations for public service there was added the hope (secretly entertained perhaps) that some day somehow we too would find ourselves in the National Capital close to the great wheels whose motion so controls the lives of our countrymen and directs the destiny of the Nation. As one of the latter class I confess a profound sense of gratitude that the turn of fate finds me in Washington at a time when the Republic is in the midst...
Externally Dr. Zworykin's iconoscope resembles a big electric light bulb with a long neck. The bulb part is 8 in. in diameter, the whole 16 in. long. Inside are, in order from bulb to butt, 1) an ordinary motion picture camera lens which focuses on 2) a 5x4 in. sheet of thin mica. The mica is coated with microscopic particles of a secret light-sensitive material (3,000,000 particles. Dr. Zworykin computes). In the bulb's neck is 3) a small, efficient, oscillating cathode tube which sends a slim beam of electrons weaving over the light...
...English and French: "Gentlemen. ... I believe this is the first time in history that any sovereign has presided at the opening of a conference of all the nations of the world. . . . "Messieurs les délégués, c'est avec trés profonde émotion que je vois autour de moi cette auguste assemblée qui parait si vaste mais qui représente une conception infiniment plus vaste-d'espoir et les voeux du monde entier. . . . Messieurs les délégués, je vous tend la main...
Heart of that measure was the provision whereby the President was empowered to license interstate industries and thus club recalcitrant minorities into good behavior on pain of putting them out of business altogether. On motion of Senator McAdoo the Finance Committee cut the heart clean out of the bill. The vote was 12-to-7, with Utah's King, Texas' Connally, Oklahoma's Gore, North Carolina's Bailey, Virginia's Byrd, Missouri's Clark, Democrats all, deserting their President. Final elimination of the license system would leave the Government powerless to enforce its industrial...
...Hitler government last week made its first move not aimed at destroying opposition but at solidifying its own position. Into motion went Chancellor Hitlers long-heralded unemployment plan, which will be financed by a thumping government credit of 1,500,000,000 marks...