Word: motioned
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...result of a motion by D. Boone Schirmer '37, the Union decided to organize a committee to investigate reactionary tendencies in the Sociology Department. Another committee will be formed to plan for the participation of the H.S.U. in the Tercentenary celebration next September...
...without plot. Its virtue is its nonchalance which inexplicably becomes a striking feat of dramaturgy. Typical characters: Countess de Maigret as the wife whose idea of an escapade is to ride around the block in a taxicab with a lover who can be with her only in dark motion picture houses; Hugh Herbert as the theatrical prompter who, when off duty, prompts from force of habit the conversational clichés of those around...
...accidents of the Show's alphabetical arrangement by artists' names brought side by side the works of Benito Nuno, patriot, and Benjamin S. Ovryn, revolutionary. Nuno's Our Leader presents President Roosevelt, glorified, benevolent, beaming at various U. S. phenomena climaxed by a copy of Motion Picture Magazine. For the Left, Ovryn gives the same central position in his study of The Imperial Way to Russia's Dictator Joseph Stalin, topped by a villainous crew of imperialists: Henry Ford, J. P. Morgan, John D. Rockefeller Sr., Britain's Stanley Baldwin, France's Pierre Laval...
...President Roosevelt personally has set in motion a campaign to discredit, if possible, the effectiveness of those Washington correspondents who write articles critical of his Administration. . . . The direct connection between the public attack made by the Democratic National Committee on various Washington correspondents and the President's conversations in private is no longer a secret and in the public interest ought not to be. ... If writers who are conscientiously trying to write their impressions of what is happening in Washington are to be made the objects of a punitive campaign because they happen to disagree, this, too, ought...
...best letter of too words or less offering constructive criticism or defense of the typical collegiate motion pictures, and written by a student or faculty member of a college or university in the United States, COLLEGIATE DIGEST will award a prize of $10. The writer of the second best letter will recerve a prize of $5. Send you letter NOW to Motion Picture Editor, COLLEGIATE DIGEST SECTION, P O Box 472, Madison, Wis. Letters cannot be returned to writers...