Word: motioning
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Finally two motions were pushed to a vote. One, introduced by the Socialists and calling for a capital levy, was defeated by 121 votes. The other, a simple motion of confidence in the Briand Ministry passed by a majority...
...that a flying officer be placed on the general staff; that extra pay and insurance be granted those on flying duty; that the aviation reserve be strengthened. 3) That similar actions be taken in the Navy Department. Armed with this program, Congress set the ponderous wheels of lawmaking into motion, and during the session just closed passed three bills following, in the main, Mr. Morrow's recommendations. Last week the President signed the last of these bills-the formidable Army Air Bill authorizing an expenditure of $150,000,000 over a period of five years...
Variety (Emil Jannings). Made in Germany is a trade mark which we learned, ten years ago, to shun. It is returning on the most American of all products, the movie, with irresistible authority. Germans have made several of the best motion pictures in history (The Last Laugh, Siegfried) and this latest sample is of unfailing excellence. It is not a new story, telling as it does of the pretty girl, the old trapeze artist, and the young trapeze artist who weaned away her love. It is a magnificent sample of the new German treatment, which depends chiefly on economy...
Commander Locker -Lampson (Tory sponsor of the motion) : "The time has come to stop making freeborn Englishmen the helots of a slave State...
Will Hays consented to remain president of the Motion Picture Producers & Distributors of America for another ten years, until 1938. His yearly salary, when last announced...