Word: motioning
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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When the Coshland motion to slash salaries came to a vote, however, it was defeated, 2,370,000 to 335 shares. Apparently oblivious to the commotion he had caused, Chairman Schwab uprose to remind the stockholders: "This is our thirtieth meeting and I think we have every reason to be proud. ... In the steel business I have been known as an optimist and a dreamer for 55 years, and I have seen those dreams come true...
Senator Pittman ordered: "The Sergeant-at-Arms is instructed to carry out the motion of the Senator from Arkansas...
However, since that meeting many members of the Society who were not present when the resolution was passed have expressed strong disapproval, and a movement is on foot to present a motion at the Society's next meeting, April 16, which, if passed, will have the effect of reversing the previous stand of the Society...
Aboard Roosevelt Special en Route to New York, April 8--A few strokes of President Roosevelt's pen on the $4,880,000,000 Work-Relief Bill today set in motion use of history's largest lump sum appropriation to put 3,500,000 men to work and end the depression...
...taking this year. The five: "Our provocative naval maneuvers in the Pacific; the proposed expenditure of more than one billion dollars this year on the Army and Navy for purely military purposes; the refusal of the U. S. to join with Japan in seeking a 50% cut in navies; motion pictures which, under the direction of some influential source, seem deliberately to be stirring up a war spirit toward Japan; the almost daily warnings against Japan which appear in the newspapers...