Word: motioning
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...have done the day before since rules permit adjournment for no more than three days in a row. Confident in his formula for attracting attention, Illinois' Church objected again but this time Sam Rayburn was too quick for him. By re-framing his proposal as a formal motion to recess, which requires a vote and cannot be defeated by a single objector, he got the House away to dinner and a three-day respite from Illinois' Church. On Monday, when the House reconvened, Agriculture Committee Chairman Marvin Jones brought up his Farm Bill. This meant that the House...
...raiser of Red scares is Reporter Stark, yet he was willing to put his name to the flat statement that the "Unity" campaign against Homer Martin was "directed from the New York headquarters of the Communist Party and put into motion here through the party's representatives, in association with those who follow the party's 'line.' " Spearhead of the Unity group is Wyndham Mortimer, who neither admits nor denies that he is a Communist but who is known to cleave to the "party line." An oldtime United Mine Worker, Wyndham Mortimer used to be favored...
This protoplasmic streaming interests Dr. Seifriz immensely. The movements of Physarum show a definite pulse, not unlike that of a beating heart. With inadequate motion-picture equipment at Philadelphia, he was not able to see this living rhythm until he went to studv at the Pasteur Institute in France where films had been made and slowed down 100 times. The Physarum pulse was seen to have a period of about 45 seconds. Dr. Seifriz rejects the older theories attributing protoplasmic movement to surface tension, electric potentials, etc. "I ask the reader," he wrote recently in Science, "merely to admit that...
...known as the tsar of the motion picture industry is Will H. Hays. Potentially more powerful than Tsar Hays is a man named George E. Browne. His terrific title: President of the International Alliance of Theatrical Stage Employes of the American Federation of Labor. In Hollywood's studios 12,000 workmen are members of unions that have sworn allegiance to I.A.T.S.E.; in the projection booths of the nation's theatres, I.A.T.S.E. rules the roost. Should Tsar Browne and his lieutenant, William Bioff, call their men out on strike, practically the entire business of making and showing motion pictures...
First step in Dr. Center's clinic is to measure hops, fixations and regressions with an ophthalmograph. which takes motion pictures of a reader's eye movements. The resulting picture looks like sets of stairs, recording the eye's stops and jerks. If the reader is efficient, the stairs are regular...