Word: motioned
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Ended a six-week filibuster on the Anti-Lynching bill, first defeating (for the second time) a motion for cloture, then voting 58-10-22 to lay the bill aside...
Meanwhile, Laborites proposed a motion of censure, which if carried would call for the fall of the Cabinet. The Leader of the Opposition, Laborite Clement Attlee, shrilled: "Mussolini is a bankrupt dictator, yet it is just at this time that the Prime Minister goes whining to him for an agreement on any terms...
...promptly turned editor, in devising first the radio and then the motion picture MARCH OF TIME...
...Young's salary (about $35,000 a picture) and get her the right to work for other studios than Twentieth Century-Fox,* outraged Producer Joseph M. Schenck ordered him off the lot. Last week observers thought this tiff might have reverberations: As new president of the Association of Motion Picture Producers, Inc., forceful Producer Schenck could influence other executives to follow his lead. The Selznick agency, Producer Schenck said, had tried to jack its clients' salaries so high that "to meet the demands would be ruinous . . . to the industry as a whole." Replied alert Agent Selznick: "I confess...
...best motion pictures of 1937 starred Paul Muni in (1 Wells Fargo, 2 Night Must Fall, 3 The Life of Emile Zola, 4 Tovarich, 5 Conquest...