Word: motioned
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...sociology lies outside the Department, as well as within it. A forty percent increase* in the number of concentrators in five years and an even greater increase in the enrollment of outside men in several courses** indicates the direction in which the Sociology Department is moving. This forward motion can and should be accelerated in several ways...
...Angrily debated a motion recommending that the Covenant of the League of Nations be so revised that Sanctions can never again be applied nor breach of a frontier be cited by the League as grounds for punishing the treaty-breaker...
...great maker of addresses at middle-class League of Nations meetings, intervened to dampen the shocks. "As long as we remain members of the League and signatories of its Covenant," Lord Cecil reminded Their Lordships, "we are bound to carry out our obligations under that Covenant. I regard the motion with misgiving because it would mean that we no longer would be bound by provisions of a treaty we had deliberately signed. That is a doctrine which is not only extremely dangerous but in my judgment is highly immoral...
...when he was 39, encouraged by an advertising man named Robert Cochrane, he opened a Chicago nickelodeon called The White Front. Six months later, he had a string of them and his own film exchange. From 1909 to 1914, Laemmle and his famed Independent Motion Pictures Co. ("IMP") fought the patents company which then threatened to get control of the industry...
...Warren and Al Dubin turned out the tunes for Forty-Second Street, went on to do Footlight Parade, Gold Diggers of 1933, Wonder Bar, Twenty Million Sweethearts. Fortnight ago their Lullaby of Broadway (Gold Diggers of 1935) was voted the best song of the year by the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences (TIME, March...