Word: motioned
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Voted (50-10-29) on motion of Tennessee's McKellar to recommit the $124,000,000 appropriation bill for the Departments of State, Justice, Commerce and Labor with instructions to cut its total 10% for economy...
...winter of 1930-31 Thomas crossed the great southern desert of Arabia, which had hitherto constituted the largest expanse of wholly unexplored land outside the Antarctic continent. He will illustrate his talk, which is open to all members of the University with motion pictures. This lecture is made possible through the kindness of Charles R. Crane...
...Upper Bavaria in 1878, he has first-memories of the views from his bedroom window, from the frame of which swung a large bead of clear blue glass. "I could swing it from side to side as I pleased, quickly in short jerks or slowly and largely, and its motion seemed always to have a mysterious correspondence with whatever I desired and undertook." Whenever, across the street, the pageant of a funeral procession wound its way up to the cemetery on the hill, with incense burning, bells ringing, people singing and wailing, the child was filled with glee. "I used...
...prime concern to Motion Picture Producers & Distributors of America, Inc. is the fact that U. S. cinema attendance has declined about 30% in the last two years. Last week the organization took action. To the kind of people that Cinema Tsar Will Hays believes have lately begun to be interested in the cinema-bankers, editors, ministers, scientists, socialites, teachers, writers-were mailed 150,000 small blue leaflets, containing ballots. On each ballot were listed 34 species of cinema under six generic heads. Voters were asked to check their favorite kind of cinema, add remarks. Twelve million more such ballots will...
Then he hopped back up on the bench, put on his glasses again and as Judge Jeffries gave his ruling: "Counsel's motion is granted. Case dismissed." Lawyer Jeffries shook hands with Judge Jeffries...