Word: motioned
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...sometimes said that the motion picture is the Peter Pan of the arts; Walter Wanger and United Artists are fast proving this dictum false. With "Algiers" and now with "Trade Winds," this week at Loew's State and Orpheum, a simple theme has been taken and developed through the ingenious use of technical devices into a powerful and moving drama. This is not to say that from a purely artistic point of view, "Trade Winds" is in a class with its predecessor, for it is not; but on the other hand this latest attempt will doubtless be even more popular...
Books of early English printers, photographic displays including motion picture stills and pre-photography discoveries, and first editions and manuscripts of Robert Burns are also being shown...
...newest types, although practice has been not to permit manufacturers to sell any model of war plane to a foreign country until six months after sale to the U. S. Army has been made. The President reasoned that French orders would set U. S. factories in motion, make them readier to fill domestic orders. Having talked it over with his Cabinet, he had enabled a French military mission now in the U. S. to see various things it wanted, among them, the Douglas bomber...
...Right and Centre combined to give M. Daladier a 374-to-228 vote of confidence on his non-intervention policy. A vote on the Government's motion to "maintain the integrity of the French Empire and the security of its imperial routes" was unanimous - 609-to-0. It was on this question that M. Daladier became eloquent...
...Scanlan, managing editor of the Brooklyn Tablet, the collapse of the Spanish Loyalists last week (see p. 14) looked like a clean-cut Christian victory. Yet it was also a Fascist victory. Even as Roman Catholic editors wrote of it, General Franco, to them a "Christian Gentleman," set in motion a device which might well seriously embarrass his Christian followers. He signed a "cultural treaty" with Adolf Hitler, by which Spain and the Third Reich undertook to give "fiscal preference" to one another's cultural works. Banned in each state were to be all publications unfavorable to either Government...