Word: motioned
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...advisability of a Senate investigation of Prohibition. Instead, he talked of prisons. Since last summer's riots, President Hoover has been pressing a $7,000,000 program to increase U. S. prison facilities (TIME, Aug. 19). The House passed a batch of bills to put that construction into motion. The Senate has done nothing. The facts and figures of prison congestion which "General" Mitchell gave the Committee were in reality a rebuke to the Senate for its inaction...
Chamber and Senate last week passed legislation to increase duties by weight instead of ad valorem on imported motor cars (TIME, April 21). The Chamber later carried a Government motion waiving the usual six-week Easter recess, compelling Parliament to sit and sweat over a complex social insurance bill already debated to distraction...
...support of Two-Way Time Dr. Lewis suggested that a motion picture of the universe could as well be run backward as forward, would defy no laws. Accepting two-way Causality it is possible to conceive that events which will happen tomorrow might have influenced Caesar to cross the Rubicon...
Cock o' the Walk (Sono-Art). Only the most skillful playing could have given a credible air to this complicated and artificial story. It was written by Arturo Mom, motion picture reviewer of La Nation of Buenos Aires, who apparently compiled it by pasting up some of his old notices. He includes a jailbreak, an attempted suicide, a marriage triangle, a race-with-death in fast cars along a headland. The one real and potentially effective suggestion of the picture-the relations between an egotistic young musician and the waif he has married for commercial reasons-is spoiled...
...story may or may not be an autobiography but it must deal with college life and college people; it must be a study of contemporary college life. The prize offered covers rights to serialize the story in "College Humor," publication rights and royalties. Motion picture and dramatic rights are reserved for the author. Moreover, both the book and the magazine publishers reserve the right to publish either in book or serial form, any of the novels submitted in the contest...