Word: motioning
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...specifically non-Communist organization pledged to the extension of "the Roosevelt-Willkie tradition." To join this group, HLU had to amend its constitution, and, further, join SDA (ADA's student branch), as individuals. This latter provision met with strenuous objection from the AYD sympathizers, but after several ballots the motion was passed and HLU settled into its current "Roosevelt-Willkie" tradition, joining SDA last fall. HLU's affiliation with this group is loose, the Harvard branch maintaining autonomy with occasional...
YOUR OTHERWISE FINE ARTICLE ANENT THE ACADEMY OF MOTION PICTURE ARTS & SCIENCES 20TH ANNUAL AWARDS [TIME, MARCH 29] WAS MARRED BY THE PHRASE "MINOR PRIZES." PLEASE BE ASSURED THAT ALL ACADEMY AWARDS ARE EQUAL IN IMPORTANCE AND THE ACADEMY DEPLORES THE TENDENCY TO DIFFERENTIATE...
Academy of Motion Picture Arts & Sciences...
...their export division, discovered that interest in the world abroad was not confined to this department, but that the films were equally interesting to "the engineering, production and spare parts division as well." Churches found that foreign missionary activities received more generous support when parishioners were brought, by the motion picture, directly to the countries to be served. Banks and trade associations began to use the films to widen the broad knowledge that their employees need in their jobs. Colleges and schools found that the films made academic subjects come alive...
...Untarnished Idyl. The first movie magazine appeared in 1909. All copy in an inexpensive little throwaway called Motion Picture Stories was supplied free by the studios. In the years before censorship, cinemag pages were triple-dipped in juicy Hollywood scandal. But in the early '303 the tattlers were forcibly tongue-tied; the studios threatened to deny them access to the stars. Says one publisher: "We were licked. Without Jean Harlow stories alone, we'd have lost 10% of our circulation...