Word: motioned
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...teller vote of 245-40-121 the House ordered a second to the Rainey motion...
...Atlantic City President Green announced that he had received grave charges against one Sam Kaplan, autocratic president of Local 306 of Motion Picture Machine Operators Union of New York City. Most of the evidence against him and his henchmen had been dug up by the crusading New York World-Telegram. Kaplan was accused of drawing an exorbitant salary ($21,800 per year) not counting "gifts" the union voted to him. Union members complained that his bodyguards beat them up, forced them to contribute to his legal defense fund, deprived them of jobs, drove them out of the local...
...Fascist Party must stick by its announced resolve to fight any Cabinet not headed by Hitler. Soon Fascist headquarters officially announced "our Party declines any sort of toleration of the Schleicher Cabinet." The Socialist Party also officially "declined." The Communist Party filed with Speaker Göring a motion of no confidence in the von Schleicher Cabinet to be presented to the new Reichstag when it met this week. Out of 582 Reichstag seats the Fascists hold 195, Socialists 121, Communists 100. Thus if the Fascists and Communists made good their threat they would have a majority against General...
...meetings of the Circolo are conducted in Italian. The programs for the remainder of the year are of unusual and varied interest. Motion pictures direct from Italy are expected, and several notable speakers are to be present at their teas and dinners...
...will. He must vote to break a tie and may vote whenever else he chooses. As leader of the House majority he picks the legislation he wants brought up. Members speak only at his grace. During the last six days of a session his power to recognize a motion to suspend the rules makes him an absolute dictator of House procedure...