Word: motioned
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Senate would be publicly condemned as hot-headed and vengeful. Others argued that unless the Sergeant-at-Arms were quickly ousted, the country would interpret the Senate's delay as a confession of guilt. Senator Norris moved immediate dismissal. The Senate divided on party lines and the motion was lost 31-to-40. The Barry case was referred to the Judiciary Committee. A helpful newshawk reminded Mr. Barry of a statement made last May by Senator Carter Glass concerning branch banking. To the committee, Mr. Barry quoted the Senator in his own defense: "'. . . They hired some Congressmen...
...Believing that Fascists can win any election held in Germany just now, Chancellor Hitler ordered his henchmen in Prussia's State Diet to present a motion for its dissolution. Desperate, the Communists, Catholic Centrists and Socialists in the Diet forgot that they are to each other like fire, oil & water, combined to defeat dissolution by a vote...
Among the short and violent episodes which supplied the spice to Bisbee's colorful career, a few stand out prominently. Early this fall, Bisbee was seized by an over-powering passion to write lyrics. Answering an add in Motion Picture Magazine, he wrote, "I have been thinking about composing a peppy, collegiate song with a racy, ha-cha-cha chorus." Almost immediately he received a reply from Henry Cohen, chief of staff, to the effect "whether you write for play of pay, you are to be encouraged because it shows a lofty thought...
...Carpenter, died less than two years ago. Mrs. Borden, whose Cambridge aunt gave her her wedding, was divorced from Oilman-Stockbroker-Sportsman John Borden. The wedding was a quiet affair but in Chicago, where both composer and his new wife live, it was loudly publicized, set several events in motion...
Stopping at the larger cities of the United States in its nation-wide publicity campaign, the Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer trackless train, which has taken two years to construct and which contains a complete motion picture studio and sound equipment projector "on wheels," will come to Harvard Square this afternoon at 3.30 o'clock...