Word: motioned
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Read a motion by Arkansas' Robinson to invoke cloture in debate on the Glass banking bill (see col. 2). ¶ Adopted (52-to-17) an amendment to the Glass banking bill limiting national branch banking to States which permit State branch banking. ¶ Heard Indiana's Robinson call France "a thorough ingrate." ¶ Passed a bill giving 350,000 bales of Farm Board cotton to the Red Cross. ¶ Passed without debate a resolution from the Foreign Relations Committee to give the President wider powers to embargo arms shipments. ¶ Adopted a resolution by Virginia's Glass...
While a noisy crowd packed the galleries the cloture motion missed by one ballot (58-to-30) the necessary two-thirds majority. The vote did not mean that Huey Long had 30 die-hard supporters on the floor but only that many a Senator is opposed in principle to any form...
Amid pandemonium a Socialist motion to lower the Imperial flag was howled down. Disgusted Socialist and Communist Deputies marched out in a body. Later that day 1,000 Monarchists met in Berlin to hear & cheer "a message from our most gracious Kaiser and King," Wilhelm II, who was represented by his fifth son, Prince Oscar...
...When the train is running, the same three short blasts mean that the engineer has understood the signal to stop at the next station. Other important whistle-signals: Two long blasts, two short: approaching a highway crossing; three long blasts: train in motion has parted; one short blast: apply all brakes...
...attempt to raise the seige. The ballet and chorus are reaching their height when the manager stumbles out onto the stage and stops the performance to make the announcement that "Mafeking has been relieved." Pandemonium breaks loose. The effect is one of the greatest climaxes in motion picture history...