Word: motioned
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Rejected (4440-37) a motion to go into executive session to receive executive nominations from the President...
...Herriot left the tribune dozens of Deputies sprang from their seats to wring his hand, clap his broad back?but soon afterward the chamber voted 4O2-to-187 to reject the Herriot motion for payment. Amid pandemonium the Premier shouldered his way out of the Chamber, followed by his Cabinet and by so many Deputies that adjournment was expected and some Deputies went home. Instead debate was resumed in the gray dawn and at 6:03 a. m. (while M. Herriot & Cabinet were at the Elysee presenting their resig nations to President Albert Lebrun) the leaderless Chamber voted again, this...
...language a motion to default?though it was so in effect?this measure declared that "The Chamber invites the Government to summon, in accord with Great Britain and other debtors, a general conference ... to adjust all international obligations...
...possibility that German motion pictures will be shown at Harvard was strengthened yesterday by the statement of F. W. C. Lieder, associate professor of German, that the question of having German pictures would be given careful consideration at the next meeting of the department...
Professor Bridgman, the first speaker, treating the subject from the point of view of the Physicist, outlined the general history of the subject. He told how acquaintance with energy goes back to ancient times, and cited examples of "perpetual motion" machines which have been built periodically in the hope of preventing the dissipation of energy. The early manufacturers of these machines saw no reason whatsoever why they would not work, and it was not until the nineteenth century that knowledge of the forces involved became sufficiently good, so that people began to realize that their labors were in vain. Professor...