Word: motioning
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...conference introduced a motion asking for an international agreement to exempt police from passport formalities...
Advocacy of American participation in the World Court was entrusted to George W. Wickersham, Attorney General under President Taft. Despite some slight objection on the ground that it was a political question, Mr. Wickersham succeeded in carrying a motion endorsing the World Court. The motion implied that most Americans favored it. Lord Birkenhead made no reference to politics, except to intimate that in England the prestige of royalty was increasing and that of the Socialist party was diminishing...
About 117 well-fed motion picture producers are gnashing in the neighborhood of 1,000 gold teeth over the tidings that Rudyard Kipling has parted with the film rights to Kim. The gnashing is particularly reverberant owing to the fact that he has given them to an amateur in the field of flickering drama?and a woman, at that! The woman and the amateur?Miss Maude Adams...
...actual fact Miss Adams is not such an amateur as the majority may suppose. Ever since her recovery from the illness which cut short her tour in 1918 she has been busy studying stage lighting and the mechanics of motion pictures. Her laboratory has been buried in some obscure corner of the General Electric Co., Schenectady, N. Y., and she has consistently resisted attempts to obtain information regarding her activities...
Since these were the contingent points on which the author had been skeptical they promptly agreed. Miss Adams secured the motion picture rights to Kim for eight years. Despite this extended contract she expects to start work before next Spring...