Word: motioned
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Smith optimistically feels that the time has come for the writer, painter, and artist. The young man in college should not be ashamed in asking for support from anyone in the first years of his struggle. His works should be deeply serious; he should turn his back on the motion picture and popular magazine, and financial rewards will follow easily enough. Sinclair Lewis made much more money last year than the president of the United States...
...ruled that prima facie evidence had been established that the Morgan County jury roll was allwhite. Counsel Leibowitz then moved that Negro talesmen be considered for the present jury, a proposal which brought to horrified Southerners visions of carpetbagging days. The courtroom was tense when Judge Horton softly said: "Motion denied...
...feet again, President Hammond starts to make things hum. He demands and gets the resignation of his Secretary of State. He addresses an army of unemployed, enlists them in a civilian workers corps. He gets rid of all his Cabinet when they plot against him. When there is a motion in Congress to impeach him, he adjourns Congress, makes himself dictator. Molested by a tycoon gangster, he places his secretary at the head of a corps of Federal police in armored cars. They bombard the gangster's distillery, deliver its occupants to a firing squad. Throughout the picture...
...shipped by boat from England and powered with supercharged Bristol Pegasus radial motors whose propellers had been torqued to provide maximum power development at 13,000 ft., were rolled out at 8:25 on Lalbalu airdrome. Into one stepped Douglas Douglas-Hamilton, Marquess of Douglas & Clydesdale. To focus the motion picture camera, fixed, electrically heated and aimed blind earthward, Col. L. V. S. Blacker, Wartime aviator, climbed into the fuselage...
Artificial Camphor. The U. S. annually imports ten million pounds of camphor for manufacture of laminated safety glass, explosives, celluloid, lacquers, motion picture films and medicines. Half of the imported camphor is synthesized from U. S. turpentine that has been shipped abroad. New York University's Professor John Joseph Ritter offered a cheap, comparatively simple artificial camphor right in the U. S. from home-produced materials. He uses turpentine, sulfuric acid, common salt, soda ash, aniline, sulfur...