Word: motioned
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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After the Lewis speech the delegates, pounding, shouting, waving their banners, unanimously adopted a motion calling for a special assessment of $1 on each member to raise a war chest for the drive on Ford. "We'll be in before snow flies," said Homer Martin. That was the signal for a long demonstration with the convention band blaring Solidarity Forever...
...through prayers. The Roman Catholic Church attests sanctity after rigorous investigation. Hundreds of Catholics during the past year addressed prayers to Fray Junipero to intercede for them, and hundreds wrote Bishop Scher that their prayers had been answered, mostly by cures of ailments. This was enough to set in motion Fray Junipero's cause for beatification, preparatory to which the Church, if it found he had been responsible for miracles, would give him the title "Venerable." Appointed Vice-Postulator, or working advocate of the cause, was Franciscan Father Augustine Hobrecht of Santa Barbara Mission. But Father Augustine...
...horizontal axis, the other (gyro-horizon) spinning on a vertical axis. The pilot sets a course on the directional gyro and the plane follows it. If an air current tips up one wing, the movement of the plane around the rigid gyro activates the controls to counteract the motion. The gyropilot is so expert that it gives passengers a smoother ride than can the pilot himself...
...When a motion was made to print Professor Davis' speech of welcome, Delegate James A. Meade of Chicago rose to shout: "I for one refuse to sit here and hear the president misrepresent the great body of American teachers. The rank and file don't want that kind of stuff. We're for the A. F. of L. regardless of what you want to do. You represent the C. P. but I don't know whether that stands for 'college professors' or 'Communist Party'." This gibe was greeted by a storm...
...York delegations were instructed in favor of the C. I. O. and the Chicago group against it, but delegates from other sections did not seem to know what their constituencies wanted, let alone the rank & file of U. S. teachers. Agitation for a referendum appeared, and a motion was made that the executive council conduct a referendum on C. I. O. affiliation "no sooner than Feb. 1, 1938." It was passed by a vote...