Word: motioning
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...knew at once not only that the Government would have funds to invest in worthy projects, but how to apply for these funds, by the middle of the summer. With this information at hand the City Federation of Women's Clubs of San Antonio set about putting into motion all of the efforts necessary to procuring funds for the erection of a fireproof dormitory which is to provide lodging for 180 girls at the rates of $1 to $1.50 per week per girl. Now, at a time when many others are just deciding on projects-board meetings, committee meetings...
With even Sir Herbert Samuel taking the view that the forging of foreign trademarks is a Japanese practice as common as it is indefensible, the House of Commons adopted without a single dissenting vote a motion praying His Majesty's Government to take every step within their power to defeat Japanese competition...
...Defeated, 434-to-58, a motion presented by Sir Herbert Samuel, leader of the Orthodox Liberal Opposition, censuring the Speech from the Throne for its "lack of constructive policies...
...Lowell's interest in the cinema started last summer when he was chosen to succeed Princeton's late John Grier Hibben as chairman of the Motion Picture Research Council, which attempts to elevate the moral tone of the cinema industry. Last month, his name popped into Variety for the first time when he requested President Roosevelt to include in the cinema code a provision against "block-booking," whereby producers require exhibitors to take pictures by groups instead of singly. Block-booking is the most familiar alibi of exhibitors who show morally deleterious films. Their real reason for disliking...
...movies are too artificial and mechanical. Of course, Hollywood has many great artists, but the greater part of the success of motion picture shows depends on the work of directors and producers rather than the actors and actresses. The trend of pictures today is toward artificiality, while plays are turning more and more in the direction of naturaliness. I do not mean that one trend is any more desirable than the other. For example, I think Mac West is a marvelous actress, and yet there is certainly nothing very natural or genuine in the acting of screenland...