Word: motioned
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...between Jan. 1 and Dec. 31. The Chrysler Building stands, not only completed but occupied. The Young Plan, despite subsequent events, remains world history. But Colonel Lindbergh after his flight was required to serve the nation year after year as its No. 1 Hero-a role which set in motion a train of circumstances ending in tragedy the windy night of March 1 at Hopewell, N. J. and, as Lindbergh had, Man of the Year Roosevelt has his greater job ahead of him. Will he make good in the White House? The country is only too ready to hope...
...Confirmed the promotions of 816 Army, Navy and Marine Corps officers but declined to lift the Democratic ban on executive nominations by the President. ¶ Defeated (48-10-23) a motion by Connecticut's Bingham for the immediate consideration of the 3.2% beer bill received from the House (see below). ¶ Adopted a conference report on a bill to free the Philippines ten years after the adoption of a new Island constitution; sent it to the House for concurrence. ¶ Passed a House bill to merge Washington's two street car systems. ¶ Passed a bill by South...
Carefully concealed for the past few years, the red ace up China's silken sleeve is Bolshevism. Last week China's reaction to the League of Nations' failure so far to help her against Japan was to make a motion toward her trump. Only the merest motion, for the Chinese gentlemen who compose the present government are astuteness itself. They let big, round-face Soviet Foreign Commissar Maxim Maximovitch Litvinov announce with unction at Geneva last week that Russia, the world's largest nation, and China, the world's most populous nation, have resumed the diplomatic relations which China broke...
Agent Esty likes to remark, "If you succeed you're a genius. If not, you're a fool." For 17 years he has been succeeding. He got his first job with Chicago's Motion Picture News, then sold space for Butterick Publishing Co.'s Home Sector. He worked with several agencies before he went with J. Walter Thompson in 1925. There he was a vice president, handled the Lux (soap) account. His specialty is psychology. To study abnormal minds he has built up one of the largest private libraries on the subject. His studies...
...ordinary white cells. Leucocytes furnished a good yardstick of energy production and exhaustion. Comparing one form of athletics with another disclosed that football is the most strenuous of all, with the possible exception of the 25-mi. marathon. During two hours of football, the ball is actually in motion only eight minutes. In that time the player burns up energy at top speed. Researchers Wood and Edwards discovered that the average leucocyte increase is nearly 300%. But whence the leucocytes come and whither they go, no man knows...