Word: motioning
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...grimy offices of the new National Labor Relations Board, only one man seemed eager to get the law's machinery into motion. He was Missouri-born, 62-year-old Robert N. Denham, who will be a sort of czar over U.S. labor relations as the board's general counsel. He likes the law; some of his ideas were incorporated in it. Republican Bob Denham thinks he can make the law work. The five new NLRB members, who will sit as robeless judges but will have little authority in enforcing the law, do not share Denham's enthusiasm...
...Wilfrid Eady, bone-tired after a year and a half of financial negotiations with Canada, Argentina, India and Egypt, had been dispatched to Washington, along with other financial experts. Cameron Fromanteel Cobbold, Deputy Governor of the Bank of England, was vacationing in the south of France. Set in rapid motion by the crisis, he "dipped down" in Britain for a quick check with Whitehall and the Bank of England's headquarters in Thread-needle Street, arrived in the U.S. unshaven and with his old school tie (Eton's black with narrow light blue stripes) holding up his pants...
...moviegoers got a clap on the back from Jack L Warner of Hollywood's Warner Brothers. His considered estimate of the fans: "the most adult-minded audiences in motion picture history." Responsible for this grown-upness: "early mental maturing . . . via the newspapers and radio, as well as the screen...
...producers also charged a breach of faith. The tax came just as they were negotiating a voluntary reduction in their "take-home" earnings from Britain. They had sent Johnston, president of the Motion Picture Export Association, Inc. (as well as of the Motion Picture Association of America) to London to work out a solution. He came back with a dozen different proposals for Hollywood to consider, including one to hold part of the movie companies' earnings in blocked accounts in England. But before he even submitted them to producers, Britain fired...
After defeating by one vote a motion that AVC surrender the sponsorship of Wallace to a University-wide committee which they would organize, the assemblage compromised upon a three point resolution: (1) AVC is to continue to be the sponsor of its first forum (2) A committee chosen from those in attendance is to form another committee, composed of University and non-University groups to attempt to induce the Administration to permit use of the Yard for a Wallace rally (3) This sub-committee of the original group will help select the persons who will sit on the platform with...