Word: motioned
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...have set in motion a unique expedition into a new field of world economics," said Thomas Lincoln Chadbourne, the big, handsome Manhattan lawyer (onetime policeman, onetime pugilist), who has worked over this plan steadily for the past nine months...
...Four motion pictures on engineering subjects were shown at the meeting last night, the final one of the year The first one was it a technical exhibition of the process of riveting the second, a survey of the use of dynamite, particularly in the construction of the Cascade Tunnel, the third showed rosd building through the national foresis...
...entire day's session had been set aside for Conservative attacks on the Chancellor's motion. Unexpectedly it passed unopposed. Conservatives, in a panic, had suddenly realized that if the House of Lords were permitted to veto the levy, Scot MacDonald could dissolve Parliament and campaign with an ideal Laborite platform: "Abolish the Lords! Levy on the landlords...
...complete a moving picture entitled "See America First" for the Scenic Classic Company of New York, a score of motion picture photographers toured Harvard yesterday. They took motion pictures of Lowell and Dunster Houses, the Stadium, Johnston gate, and other sights at Harvard...
...headed west to Chicago, thence to Oshkosh, Wis., where, he made a small competency and reputation in the clothing business. At 39, he branched out for himself, bought a Chicago nickelodeon (primitive cinema theater) and broke into the entertainment racket. From that out, his rise was picturesquely, Algeresquely steady. Motion Picture Patents Co. tried to freeze him out. Laemmle fought back tooth & nail with loud-barking publicity, many a lawsuit (289 in less than three years), lived to see his enemies scattered by legal mandate, his own fortune secured...