Word: motioned
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Instantly defense counsel claimed "judicial coercion," moved to have the indictments quashed, on the ground that Judge Cristy had forced the jurors to act. Their motion refused, counsel indicated that they might carry the matter to the Territorial Supreme Court...
Married. Linda Watkins, 23, stage and film actress; and Gabriel Lorie Hess, 51, attorney for Will H. Hayes and Motion Picture Producers & Distributors of America Inc.; in Chicago...
Whether or not one may wish to attribute the fact to altered business conditions, there can be no doubt that the motion picture industry has recently been turning more and more to that style of film whose production, it would seem, must be comparatively low in cost. Such films have been ones in which melodramatic force and not pictorial beauty have produced the chief effects and in which backgrounds of easily constructed type might be utilized in preference to scenes where costly mobs of extras parade through unusual sets and high-priced properties...
...walk 100 ft. or so with braces and canes. When standing at crowded public functions, he still clings precautiously to a friend's arm. Constitutionally he is as sound as a nut and always has been. His affliction makes people come to him to transact business, saves him useless motion, enables him to get prodigious amounts of work done at a sitting. Governor Roosevelt is confident of ultimate total recovery...
...Mississippi, Douglas Fir in Washington, white pine in California. The $108,000,000 assets further include thousands of acres of farm land, nine sawmills, 104 lumberyards, 292 miles of railroad, and the entire town of Longview, Wash. at the junction of the Columbia & Cowlitz rivers. With its bank, hotel, motion picture house, fire department, "Y," docks, tennis courts, schools, it is a model, moral settlement. Paternal & religious, Robert Alexander Long delights in the title of Founder. "Men in business today need many friends," is one of his maxims. By his side for 53 years Robert Long had someone who filled...