Word: motioned
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Hyde Park, where he went after his fireside chat, the President this week chose as administrator of the U. S. Housing Authority, to set in motion the $526,000,000 low-cost housing and slum clearance program, small, slender Nathan Straus, 48-year-old scion of Manhattan's great philanthropic and merchandising family, member of the New York City Housing Authority and longtime student of slum problems...
...best performance in his ten years of screen experience. With their portrayals in the latter, Luise Rainer and Paul Muni reach as high a perfection as any actor and actress have yet done on the screen. Both films are exponents of the tremendous power in magnitude and impressiveness the motion pictures can attain...
...Committee had by this time decided not to brand Japan as an "aggressor" and not to mention "war." Not even the President's candid show of partiality for China budged the Committee from its two nots, but after scanning Mr. Roosevelt's words it inserted in the motion it was drafting that "League members should refrain from taking any action which might have the effect of weakening China's power of resistance . . . and should also consider how far they can individually extend aid to China." As taken by Latvia's Munters before the League Assembly...
...recital of the U. S. concert season. Pianist Walter Gieseking, absent from the U. S. for two years, had already established himself as a prime interpreter of the subtle iridescences of Claude Debussy. Long before he reached Debussy (which he admits he plays "the right way . . . without any noticeable motion of the fingers"), Gieseking made his audience aware that in two years and more than 200 European concerts his playing of Bach, Mozart, Schumann had gained in nobility and strength. And he braved the showiness of Liszt so capably that his audience might never have guessed, had he not mentioned...
Speeches by Payson S. Wild, acting Master of the House, Eric T. Clarke '38, head of the Dance Committee, and Donald E. Burbank, Jr. '38, head of the Athletic Committee, will feature the dinner. Afterwards motion pictures, accompanied by a portable sound machine, will be seen in the Junior Common Room. Walt Disney cartoons and football and racehorse shorts will be shown...