Word: motioned
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Council meeting,* and Harry Bridges was out to vote defiance, to order a referendum on joining C. I. 0. He failed for the time being because William Green quietly went to bed without sending the telegram, and Bridges could not muster the three-fourths vote necessary to carry his motion in committee-of- the whole...
...gold braids more than 400 of the 466 Diet seats went to avowed opposition parties. The bellicose Premier, ignoring Japan's voters, remained in office (TIME, May 10). But he had reckoned without the political parties who, after much Japanese skirmishing, got round this week to passing a motion of no-confidence in the Hayashi Government. This finally convinced the Premier that he was unpopular. He called a final Cabinet meeting; sadly proceeded with his ministers to Emperor Hirohito, resigned...
Biggest argument for donations which Mr. Osborn has is the museum's increasing popularity. Attendance . exceeded 1,000,000 in 1932 and rose steadily to 2,491,582 last year, will surpass that this year. Through motion picture and lantern slide shows and circulating collections, curators last year reached another 40,000,000 minds...
What Dr. Bremond saw then from 300 yards away had the deliberate horror of a slow-motion nightmare. The dogs closed in on the little girl. No longer could the doctor see Marie-Anne, but he could hear her shrieking. One of the dogs seemed to be worrying at a large rag doll. With their black gowns hiked up, the monks came stumbling and shouting from their quarters. When the dogs were finally hauled & called off, Marie-Anne lay limp and bleeding in the snow...
...Austria when the great dirigible burned. Although he had not seen the tragedy which cost 36 lives and $3,000,000,* wise old Dr. Hugo Eckener, world's No. 1 lighter-than-air authority, had spent a week looking at the wreckage, examining meteorological records, still and motion picture films, listening to the testimony of survivors and ground crew. When he took the witness chair, Dr. Eckener felt prepared to give the first comprehensive account of what happened...