Word: motioning
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...There is no mention whatsoever of any other veteran group in your entire story. It is time the public of the nation realized that Commander O'Neil and his huge organization do not represent all the World War veterans. In the 1930 national convention of the American Legion, a motion to participate in the fight with the Disabled American Veterans of the World War and the Veterans of Foreign Wars was tabled without the rank and file having an opportunity to vote on it. But the bass drum player...
Fess in High. Some of the public effect of this G. O. P. motion to adjourn politics was spoiled by the behavior of little Simeon Davison Fess, national G. O. P. chairman. He rushed to the White House to say good-bye to President Hoover. He came out declaring: "The time has come when we must let the country know. . . . In other words, we are going into high gear...
...assaulted and battered" Photographer Benfer. Mrs. Seyfert went to court and secured an injunction restraining the News and Sentinel from taking or publishing her picture. The News and Sentinel girded their loins for a great "freedom of the press" battle. To the newspapers' disappointment, the court granted a motion of Mrs. Seyfert's lawyer to drop the case...
...Royal Family Of Broadway", the screen version of the play by Edna Ferber and George Kaufman, is not so much a motion picture as it is a photograph of a play. Being written for the legitimate stage, the Hollywood director has done nothing to adapt the original script to the peculiarities of the camera. The result is satisfactory in as much as it fulfills the purpose of the authors as they wrote for the stage, but all of the possibilities of a picture were not realized...
Professor K. F. Mather, professor of Geology and tutor in the Division of Geology, predicted in his talk that all high schools will be equipped for the projection of sound pictures within a decade. He spoke of the possibilities of sound films and told of the use of motion pictures in scenic teaching. He felt that improvements in films and radio for educational use depend on the cooperation of educators, who must meet these agencies half...