Word: motioning
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Having witnessed (on the train returning to Washington) motion pictures of himself at the Norse-American Centennial at the State Fair grounds betwixt St. Paul and Minneapolis, the President was ready to resume work. At Evansville, Wis., while he was eating his breakfast in the dining car, an infant in its mother's arms extended to him a nibbled cracker. The President reciprocated with the tender of a buckwheat cake. He made a number of rear platform appearances, but no speeches. At Willard, Ohio, on such an occasion, someone in the crowd shouted: "Mr. President, you ruined a perfectly...
...Because the budget debate had not been completed with the last session (TIME, May 11, 18, June 8), the House went into committee on the budget. Premier Baldwin announced that the Government had decided to impose a 33 1/3% ad valorem duty on imported lace. A motion to that effect was accordingly introduced. Miss Ellen Wilkinson, Laborite, asked whether the Government had conceived a grudge against women. "First it was silk, now it is lace." The motion was carried...
...time publisher of The New York Globe, had "cut loose" and stood "a little off," not so much geographically as mentally, "to contribute something to the Department of Reflective Journalism." That was eight years ago, and the Villager's idea was to try to come at, the forces in motion beneath the facts of troublesome wartime. Unembellished by pictures, headlines or advertisements, the four pages had offered amiable musings upon broad political and broader national issues: upon Art, Literature, even Manhattan Architecture and the conversation of shopgirls in subway trains as suggestive of the cycle through which this and other...
Tonight Coach Leader will show motion pictures taken during practice a week...
...censure on the Speaker is an unusual occurrence and the Liberals made it clear that in no way was the character of the Speaker involved. Conservative and Laborites (the latter are now trying to extirpate the Liberals from Parliament in order to strengthen their position) joined to defeat the motion, which was rejected by 306 to 27 votes...