Word: motioned
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...even as President Quincy moved "that this assembly of the Alumni be adjourned to meet at this place on the 8th of September, 1936," so President Conant, the final speaker, will conclude his remarks by making a formal motion of adjournment to the year 2036.PRESIDENT-EMERITUS LOWELL To Attend...
...turned up to talk Politics were more numerous. They included a Democratic Congressman from Maine, where the election is only three weeks off, a Republican Senator from North Dakota, Dr. Stanley High, who plans to spend $100,000 getting "Good Neighborly" preachers to vote for Roosevelt. Charles Pettijohn of Motion Picture Producers and Distributors of America dropped by to tell the President that his popularity, as gauged by audience response to newsreels, was once more on the upgrade. New Dealish James Cromwell brought his new wife, the onetime Doris Duke, to a Hyde Park lunch with the Roosevelts...
...names." Only croaking voices in Hollywood's radio boom were those of film exhibitors, who claimed that on nights when cinema stars were broadcasting, their theatres were sparsely attended. In the Midwest, in Southern California, in Arizona, Colorado, New York and New England, the embattled members of the Motion Picture Theatre Owners of America protested bitterly to studios for permitting stars to go on the air as well as the screen. Admen's attitude on the exhibitors' yowl to the studios was summed up last week in a four-word Variety headline: RADIO JUST DOESN...
...with a strong feeling of disgust that I read your review of the motion picture, San Francisco. ... I think TIME sounds a bit ignorant and not at all funny when it refers to Miss MacDonald's very fine performance as "acting with her teeth" and to her exceedingly lovely rendition of Nearer, My God, To Thee as "yodeling." The earthquake scene is a very creditable piece of cinematic engineering, but without the beautiful voice of Jeanette MacDonald ... it would never achieve the audience response which it does...
...office force must be composed of persons who are familiar with the technique of the motion picture...