Word: motioned
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Investigation of both magazines was set in motion by news stories in the New York Sun gathered by Reporter Edmund S. DeLong, contributing editor of the Princeton Alumni Weekly, and written by Mabel Greene. The Sun, however, made no "crusade" of the business, took no public credit...
...disapproval of Mayor Richard M. Russell's proposal to purchase heat from Harvard University for the use of the new Rindge Technical School. The outcome of the discussion was the adoption of an order calling for the establishment of a central heating plant in the School, and a motion for an investigation by the city solicitor as to the legality of Mayor Russell's plan...
...rise of Macy's could be entitled "From Gags to Riches," pointed out that advertisement for pictures must "get all selling points over before the picture opens," that films cannot, like stores, build up goodwill. Last week the controversy continued when Kenneth Collins addressed a luncheon of the Associated Motion Picture Advertisers, Inc. He repeated...
...grossest sort of exaggeration finds its way into motion-picture advertising. It is filled with such lines as, 'you will never forget this picture as long as you live' and 'this is New York's greatest thrill.' Such promises not only weaken the force of your advertising but in addition are the grossest and most flagrant sort of lies...
...license) convinced him that here was a new factor for speed not to be ignored. He became convinced that one day cabin and transport planes would be as indispensable to the average man as automobiles. He set out to be a Mercury to the middle classes, to provide motion above the ground as well as on it for lower prices. In 1929 he acquired Stinson Aircraft Corp., again by an exchange of stock. This time, though, it was not Auburn stock he offered but the common of Cord Corp.. a holding company he had formed earlier in the year...