Word: motioning
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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House of Commons. Chancellor of the Exchequer Philip Snowden's budget (TIME, May 12) withstood all amendments to change its provisions. The Chancellor stated that he expected the House to pass the budget, the whole budget, and nothing but the budget. The Government decided to regard a Conservative motion against abolition of the McKenna duties (TIME, May 12) as a vote of censure. As the Government has the undivided support of Labor and a great bulk of the Liberal Party, there was no chance of its falling. The Chancellor described Conservative agitation against the budget as "ramping, raging, tearing...
...during the debate. Len Sturrock, Liberal, arose to "talk the bill out." Booes, shooes and shouts drowned Len's speech. Laborites arose in rotation to move closure. Each time they got up, serried hosts of Conservatives stood up to continue debate and the Speaker declined to accept the motion for closure...
Union. Every delegate to the Methodist Quadrennial Conference (except 10 Oklahomans, 1 Negro and 2 others), voted for reunion with the Methodist Church South. a motion to adopt our resolution for unity." Thus he referred to the scheme of organization which he had devised to make union possible. It provides for one national Church having two jurisdictional sections, South and North. Concluding his speech the Bishop said: "It is a signal triumph of the unifying power of the passion and cross of Jesus Christ...
Allbert Frankan has sold the motion picture rights of Gerald Cranstion's Lady" to the Fox film company, and the hero of modern big business ; will in due time be seen on the silver screen. It seems likely that the directions will be less explicit, in certain spots that the author, but the air-plane scene in which a lady pursues her (may be) lover into the fastnesses of a Vickers-Vimy cross-Channel plane when he tries, literally, to fly from her wiles, ought go well in the picture. They run into a terrible storm...
...first appeared on this ballot, when Colorado voted for Douglas Fairbanks. William Jennings Bryan's nomination was a weak attempt that soon died out. When the result of the ballot was read, it was learned that Carter Glass had 710 votes or 3 too few for the nomination. A motion to nominate him by acclamation failed and after a ten minute recess the seventh ballot was taken. Amid Harvard cheers and riotous disorder, a strong crowd came out for Mr. McAdoo, but glass received the nomination by the margin of three votes. Senator Walsh of Montana was given the nomination...