Word: motioning
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...monument a great vaulted hall, largest in the world, with an esplanade on the Battery water's edge and buttressed by two ten story office buildings. A nation-wide contest among architects of all races will be held, a popular subscription to raise $25,000,000 set into motion. Ideal way of raising the money, declared Chairman Donnelly last week, would be to collect 25? from every U. S. citizen. "Then each person would feel he owned as much in this national monument as the next one. But all this about plans and designs is just my idea...
...There will always be earthquakes, just as it will always be necessary to adjust flywheels. The spinning of the earth is not unlike a flywheel's motion. Factors are constantly at work calling for readjustment. Pressure on different parts of the earth's crust varies. Even the moon may have some effect. I look upon the quake recorded yesterday as the first of a series...
Harsh and bitter expletives sullied the air of Manhattan's theatre district last week. Fortnight ago the League of New York Theatres, Inc., six months in forming, got into motion against the Broadway ticket-speculators who annually mulct theatre-goers of thousands of dollars. Fifty theatres (80% of the leading houses) and 16 ticket brokers were on the League roster. Board Member Alfred Emanuel Smith issued a letter of benediction. Special League tickets were issued to the 13 member houses then open. Meanwhile from the offices of nonLeague producers and "outlaw" brokers issued rumblings of war. ''Blacklist...
...Again voted down Viscount Astor's annual motion to admit peeresses-in-their-own-right to seats in the House of Lords...
...Threw out a Conservative motion censuring the Labor Party's free trade policy by a vote of 312 to 241, the largest majority Mr. MacDonald has received in recent weeks...