Word: motioning
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...motion of ages stirs in this place...
Professor C. T. Brues expects to spend some time making motion-pictures of insects at Petersham and Cambridge...
...earmarked the Litvinov Pact for "further study." Up jumped the bearman, growling that Russia was ready to sign a pact of economic non-aggression now, and that now was the time to sign it. He moved for action. Up jumped Turkish Foreign Minister Twefik Rushdi Bey and seconded the motion. The bearman, turning upon Foreign Minister Julius Curtius of Germany, wanted to know why he was not for prompt action. Dr. Curtius, especially afraid of M. Litvinov because Germany needs Russian orders so badly, stammered that he was not personally opposed but must consult his Government on so vital...
...insisted that as Foreign Minister he should have foreseen, should have prevented the announcement of the Zollverein. Deputy Georges Scapini, always potent in argument because of the sympathy aroused by his War blindness, cried for a greater show of force, a firmer foreign policy. M. Franklin-Bouillon introduced a motion: "Resolved: That for five years M. Briand has constantly been mistaken in his forecasts as well as his facts." Others accused him of "leading France into another...
...London, the British Faculty of Arts, esthetic organization which gives money to young artists and recently conducted a campaign against "disfigurement of the English countryside," decided that All Quiet on the Western Front (already the choice of the U. S. Academy of Motion Picture Arts & Sciences) was the best picture of 1930, awarded a gold medal to Producer Carl ("Uncle Carl") Laemmle, president of Universal. Mr. Laemmle, who recently had himself immortalized in a biography which Poet John Drinkwater was well paid to write (TIME, May 4), thanked the British faculty by radiophone, said that this year he would produce...