Word: motioned
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Connally at his colleagues last week. The Senate was considering a petition to shut off, by invoking cloture, the filibuster that Senator Connally and his Southern friends had carried on for 17 days against the Wagner-Van Nuys Anti-Lynching Bill (TIME, Jan. 24). The cloture motion needed two thirds of the votes to succeed. It failed, 37 votes...
...produced, but he left the rights to it in trust for the poor of Warsaw's ghetto. Last week, for the benefit of Polish Jews, Manhattan cinemagoers paid as high as $10 a seat to see The Dybbuk's U. S. premiére as a motion picture...
With less build-up and ballyhoo than attends the opening of a third-rate motion picture, there started at the beginning of the term a series of twelve lectures of vital interest to all who appreciate the personal and social blessings of good health. Organized by Dr. Charles F. McKhann, the free, public addresses held at the Medical School every Sunday afternoon have already benefitted hundreds of men and women who weekly pack the School's largest amphitheatre, and have enlightened thousands of others through the medium of the daily press...
Happy Landing (Twentieth Century-Fox), is blonde, Figure Skater Sonja Henie's third motion picture, makes it clear that Producer Darryl Zanuck must soon find some other way of keeping Miss Henie's films fresh than by putting them on ice. To give Sonja presentable, even spectacular, settings in which to display her twinkling, silver-bladed eurythmy is a set designer's holiday. But to blend a plot with her icebound talents is something not even a Zanuck budget seems to be able to accomplish. Happy Landing makes Miss Henie a million-dollar sideshow on a cheapskate...
...Explorations in the Amazon Basin," a lecture illustrated with motion pictures will be given today by Alexander H. Rice '01, professor of Geographical Explorations, at 5 o'clock. Repeated for the benefit of those absent from the first lecture on December 10, it is scheduled to be held at the Geographical institute...