Word: motioned
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...question is on agreeing to the motion of the Senator from New York," rapped out the Vice President...
...while Leader Barkley stewed. By the close of the afternoon, Alben Barkley had another maneuver ready. He moved to adjourn (instead of recessing) overnight, which would have automatically cleared the calendar for a fresh start on another bill next day. To his dismay, the harmonious Democrats split and the motion was voted down 35-10-27. A moment later, Republican Leader Charles McNary, missing no tricks, moved to recess. Bells rang again in the corridors and a second roll call was begun. Senators began appearing through the swinging doors to answer to their names. Freshman Senator Josh Lee of Oklahoma...
...released a movie which is probably the outstanding prestige picture of the season. It is also one of the best shows. The Life of Emile Zola has an even greater claim to the attention of adult cinemaddicts because its star, Paul Muni, having won last March the Academy of Motion Picture Arts & Sciences' award for the most distinguished performance of 1936 (The Story of Louis Pasteur), can be considered, at least until next March, the First Actor of the U.S. Screen...
...being not only a superfine and arbitrary legalist but a misanthrope who hates automobile drivers. Incorruptible, Policeman Connors has been threatened on at least one occasion by an irate driver with a shotgun, and was once about to be assaulted by a burly victim in the lobby of a motion picture theatre when bystanders intervened. Truck drivers passing through Manchester became so irked at what they considered unwarranted pouncing by Policeman Connors that they threatened to bring him to grief by making sudden stops with their air brakes while he was following behind on his motorcycle. Standing joke...
...Jameson, an army officer who tries to substitute psychology for solitary confinement. His first test comes when a religious maniac gets hold of a guard's rifle and threatens a mass massacre of his fellow convicts because they had refused spiritual redemption. With the amazing coolness common to motion picture actors in such crises, Jameson strolls up and takes the gun away from him. The next impasse is a sit-down strike staged at exercise time in the yard by convicts objecting to favoritism in the arrangement of prison jobs. That causes unfavorable publicity and Jameson's policies...