Word: motioning
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Eamon de Yalera went to the people and asked them to jam the lower house (Dail) with his men. They did, last January. The new Dail repassed the bill in its original form in March. By the Irish Constitution it then became law after 60 days and a nominal motion in the Dail that "it will be deemed to have passed both Houses of the Oireachtas [Parliament]." Last week Eamon de Yalera threw the stone from his neck. Speaking in Gaelic before the Dail. he made the "deeming" motion himself. The pack yapping at President de Valera's heels...
...short period, Ghandi has made multitudes in India politically conscious. A totally disarmed India could not conceivably have accomplished a fragment of this by any other methods except those of Ghandi. The British are finding it very uncomfortable to deal with a potent force that Ghandi has set in motion. Ghandi is anything but a "demagogue." No man since Buddha has been held with such deep reverence by his people as this frail little man. None, not even excepting Buddha, has gained such a tremendous following in that land. His bitterest political opponents ungrudgingly pay homage to his high ethi...
...Bureau, to be "owned and operated on a co-operative basis by the industry as a whole," was to make it possible for producers to hire talent without competitive bidding. Actors, writers, directors and especially agents were against the proposal. Organized opposition came from the Academy of Motion Picture Arts & Sciences, which has supported studio employes in their demand for an audit of studio books as a preliminary to the wage cut. After a stormy meeting of the Academy's directors Cinemactor Conrad Nagel, the Academy's president, resigned last week. Cinema writers got a union organizer...
...persons outside the cinema industry, Zanuck is a new name. Within the industry he is celebrated. William R. Wilkerson's Hollywood Reporter, Talmud of the cinema industry, lavishly called him last week "the greatest piece of motion picture property living today. . . ." Born at Wahoo, Neb. of U. S.-Swiss parentage, he ran away from home at 15, enlisted in the Army, chased Pancho Villa in Mexico, went to Los Angeles penniless after the 1918 Armistice. He worked in a box factory, in a shipyard, in the Baker Iron Works, wrote advertising cards for drug store windows, tried being...
These films are being given because of popular demand following similar French motion pictures...