Word: motioning
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Last week Senator Norris, perceiving a plot, moved to discharge the Shortridge Committee from further consideration of his measure. In parliamentary practice such a motion is the next thing to an insult to a committee's chairman, because, by its adoption, the chairman is rudely thrust aside and the measure buried in his committee may be yanked from beneath him to the Senate floor...
When Senator Shortridge heard of the Norris motion, he was so wroth that he exclaimed to newsmen...
Last week the Academy of Motion Picture Arts & Sciences announced its prizes for 1929. The prizes were little gold statuettes, given out at a dinner in the Ambassador Hotel in Hollywood...
...late President Harding, whose road was paved with good intentions, was not always forced to take inferior advice. First-class and frequently-taken was the advice of Secretary of State Charles Evans Hughes, at whose motion three men against whom the breath of scandal never blew (before or since) were sent by President Harding to represent the U. S. in the former enemy countries...
SUBWAY EXPRESS-Murder in motion...