Word: motioned
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...this is so, only consumers demand can not the whoels of industry in motion. As means of increasing sales, coercive selling and installment plans are new in well deserved disrepute. The only remaining method for encouraging buying is to improve the product and to lower its price. Reluctantly and as a last resort some industries have decided to make long awaited technical improvements in their processes and goods. Perhaps the stolid engineer will soon occupy the throne which the florid sales man has abdicated...
...Mountaineering Club, Washburn also belong to the Harvard Travellers Club and to the Explorers Club, with headquarters in New York. The film to be shown tomorrow evening represents the work of many days on the mountain, as only with the best of clear weather is it possible to make motion pictures...
...College. . ." At the special meeting which followed, John Quincy Adams moved "That in the admission of all future members of the Society, no oath shall be administered, and no secret shall be disclosed to or imposed upon or required of the member admitted." This, and a subsequent motion by him at the time of the presentation of a new Constitution (August 11, 1831), were lost; but finally, on September first, the new Constitution was adopted, permitting election to the chapter by three-fourths vote, instead of requiring unanimous consent, and incorporating as Article 4: "No oath or form of secrecy...
...debating society, and now, after a hundred years, debating remains its raison d'etre. The first inter-collegiate contest in which it engaged was in 1829, when the representatives of the Cambridge Union were met at Oxford. William Edward Gladstone, then President of the Union, arranged this meeting. The motion on this occasion read, 'that Shelley as a poet was superior to Byron." The Oxford men defended creditably their late undergraduate...
...annual meeting it was revealed that President Nicholas M. Schenck received 2.5% of last year's net as a bonus, that Treasurer David Bernstein received 1.5%, or $274,000 and $164,000 respectively. Mr. Schenck receives $2,500 a week, Mr. Bernstein $2,000. Shareholders made a motion requesting the directors to consider reducing the bonus payments next year...