Word: motioned
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...promptly rose, declared: "With no disrespect to our beloved Speaker who has left us, it becomes necessary, in order that the House may function and the machinery of government may not stop, that the House proceed to the election of a Speaker." On Chairman O'Connor's motion, a subdued chorus of "ayes" made Leader Bankhead 47th Speaker of the House...
...years ago a French cinema director named Robert Alexandre went to Vatican City, had the first of some 50 interviews with high Roman Catholic churchmen. For his company, Pathé Cinema de France, Director Alexandre wished to film the first motion picture ever made inside a Catholic convent. After protracted negotiations, permission was secured from His Holiness Pope Pius XI. With a crew of 15 men, Alexandre set up cameras in the mother house of the Sisters of Our Lady of Charity of the Good Shepherd at Angers. Never posing or attempting to direct its 1,000 inmates, he took...
...quotas were enlarged on 44 U. S. products including fresh apples and pears, false teeth, leaf tobacco, canned salmon, logs & lumber, silk hosiery, automobiles, typewriters, radios, electric refrigerators, steam engines, circular saws, farm machinery. France promised to maintain the existing rates on such U. S. products as dried peaches, motion pictures, frozen salmon...
...that idea nothing came, partly because neither the Senate nor the House of Representatives is equipped for sound cinema, partly because of Republican opposition. Nevertheless the film the President saw went to Congress as an official Federal document, is the first motion picture ever placed in Congressional archives. By last week this film, called The Plow That Broke the Plains, was making exciting news in & out of the cinema industry...
...formula for the approach: "(To Customer) Do you smoke cigars? (Make motion towards pocket for cigar. If answer is negative or partly negative-bring out cigar and extend it to customer-but as customer tentatively reaches for it-withdraw it halfway, and pointing to the cigar, talk up some of its features...