Word: motioned
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...unions walked out on strike. Picket lines paced before major studios, but production of 38 cinemas currently afilming went on about as usual, non-union workers filling the places of strikers. Meantime strike leaders were organizing their unions and 15 other independents into the Federated Motion Picture Crafts. Hollywood seemed headed for real trouble when, at week's end, stationary engineers, molders, plumbers, costumers, cooks, studio utility workers, machinists and boilermakers joined the strike. All sides waited anxiously to see what the actors would...
...American Medical Association. And practical enough for a Rochester shoe manufacturer, Armstrong & Co.. to spend $150,000 on: 1) support of Dr. Schwartz's gait laboratory; 2) maintenance of an extension gait laboratory in its own factory; 3) manufacture of what Dr. Schwartz calls "balance-in-motion" shoes which "compel the wearer to walk naturally." When properly fitted, "they correct flat feet, obliterate bunions and callouses, alleviate sacroiliac pain, and actually, in certain cases, cure mental derangements by removing strains from the muscles and tendons of locomotion...
...French painters of her own generation, turns to simplification and to the basic problems of Life. TIME expresses her ideas better than any other critic has done. Says TIME: "The lives of human beings are even less observable indications of the same pattern but serve to mark the wavelike motion of life's force." Doesn't this serve as the final and complete explanation of Clarissa Dalloway and Septimus Smith...
...John Taber of Aubun N. Y., moved to send the Department of Agriculture $925,000,000 appropriation bill back to the Committee to have 10% lopped off. The House did not want to economize on the farmers and New Dealers did not want to adopt a Republican's motion. Only 32 members voted...
...federal system receives an endorsement from the members of the convention in preference to a motion that the body go on record as favoring a unitary system of government. It was resolved that the federal system was 'more in keeping with the spirit and political philosophy of the American people." Discussion today, however, will decide whether the federal system should be composed of the present 48 states or whether a smaller number of administrative units might not be possible...