Word: motioned
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...hoped that, if the whole body voted to give him a meaningless "legislative pardon," Governor Frank Merriam might give him a real pardon. Two days after hearing Convict Mooney, the Assembly went on record 41-10-29 as favoring a pardon, a few hours later the Senate defeated the motion almost unanimously and the chance that Governor Merriam might be influenced thereby seemed very slim indeed. Eager to keep his hands off the whole ticklish business. Governor Merriam last year announced he would not consider pardoning Convict Mooney until his efforts to prove his innocence legally had been finally ruled...
...nation's box-office receipts in cinema are currently estimated as 15% less than they were a year ago. For this decrease the cinemindustry blames the U. S. business recession. But other explanations have been suggested: 1) the topheavy ratio of bad motion pictures to good ones, perhaps due to the demands of the double-feature market; 2) the obviously bad business move of building up cinema personalities and then letting the radio make them too familiar; 3) the lure of bingo and other catchpenny diversions of the nation's entertainment dollar...
...m.p.h. the path of the artificial fly was already a blur, at 26 m.p.h. it was barely visible, at 43 m.p.h. the direction of rotation could not be told, and at 64 m.p.h. the object was entirely invisible. Comparing the appearance of his artificial fly while in motion with Dr. Townsend's descriptions. Dr. Langmuir concluded that a good estimate of the deer botfly's speed was 25 m.p.h...
Last week in Los Angeles' fancy Hotel Biltmore Bowl, the Academy of Motion Picture Arts & Sciences bestowed upon the following cinema figures, for the following 1937 achievements, six-inch gilt figurines, strongly resembling radiator-cap sculpture and disparagingly referred to as "Oscars...
With a library of over 500 films up-to-date projecting, still and motion picture photography and developing equipment, the Harvard Film Service is able to keep scientific and other courses posted on recent developments in educational moving pictures...