Word: motioning
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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When the nominations were completed, a motion was presented for another recess of an hour. The Convention voted against it, but it was passed...
Taggart's Motion. When the 77th was finished, Chairman Walsh recognized Tom Taggart, ex-Senator boss of Indiana. He moved that after the end of that day's balloting, Mr. Walsh and Cordell Hull, Chairman of the National Committee, summon representatives of all the candidates together to work out a solution. Without a dissenting vote, the motion was carried. Immediately Senator King of Utah moved adjournment. That, too, was carried...
...Francis Jenkins, of Washington, D. C, has succeeded in transmitting photographs from Washington to Philadelphia by radio and has sent wireless motion pictures from one room to the next. His achievement has the honor of priority, since he was sending both radio and wire pictures two years ago. His apparatus employs optical means, impressing the photographs point by point upon a light-sensitive cell. This cell changes the light and shade variations into telephone or radio current waves. His device differs from the Belin and from the Telephone Company machines...
...motion was passed limiting speeches seconding nominations to five minutes. Then the long awaited moment was at hand. The Chair announced that nominations for the Presidential candidate were in order and ordered a roll call of the states. It began...
Governor Channing H. Cox, of the latter state, moved that the privileges of the Convention be accorded to Dr. Marion LeRoy Burton of Michigan to nominate the candidate of Massachusetts. Mr. Mondell put the motion: "The privileges of the Convention to Dr. Burton to nominate President Coolidge." There was a gust of laughter at this slip, covered up by a perfunctory chorus of "Ayes...