Word: motioning
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...strength against cotton farmers and the Boileau amendment was adopted 202-to-188. Then Minnesota's August Andresen moved to send the bill back to committee, and so many infuriated Southerners joined the revolt that for a moment the bill seemed likely to be scrapped. After the motion to recount had carried on the first count, the leaders were barely able to collect enough votes from the cloakrooms to beat it on a roll call, 206-to-197. A moment later the House, settling back into something nearer its accustomed docility, passed the bill, complete with Boileau amendment...
...entertainment with school work by providing schools with materials for related art, music & dancing activities. Elated by children's response to her shows, Mrs. McFadden last week blamed adults for depraving their children's taste so that when they grow up they "patronize the most inane motion pictures, vaudeville and burlesque shows. If left alone a child will instinctively enjoy beauty and good drama. It is the adult who makes a disparaging remark about the dullness of opera and makes fun of so-called 'highbrow' music and the dance, who influences the child to adopt...
Third in a series of motion pictures presented by the French Talking Films Committee, "Les Deux Gosses," by Plerre Decourcelle, will be shown at the Institute of Geographical Exploration Friday and Saturday. Performances will be at 1:45, 4:15, and 9 o'clock...
...Rising Tide" and its million and a half copies may be seen not only a 1937 application of the Gospel, but also the acknowledgement by newspaper men of the demand for a primarily clean tabloid. From below and above a move may thus be now in motion to halt the vicious circle which degrades the journal as a source of reliable information, as a force on public opinion, and as a vehicle of education...
...frog farm and an opossum farm on which the birth of young opossums, less than a half-inch long, is about to be recorded in motion pictures...