Word: motioning
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...many times as you've verbally ripped motion pictures and their stars apart, you certainly made up for it in "The Conquest of Smiling Jim." The story was of great interest to me, but I find it hard to believe that Bill Holden is really that perfect...
...resolution asking the Ivy League to permit athletes to play in post-season all-star games was tabled by the Student Council last night. The motion had first been passed by the Cornell Student Council, which asked other such groups in the League to approve it. Only Brown has done...
...Council discussion indicated a trend towards urging that all individual participation in post-season all-star games be permitted. A motion that would have asked that teams be allowed to compete failed for lack of a second. It seemed likely that when the subject is re-opened at next week's meeting, a proposal favoring at least some individual participation in post-season charity contests would be passed, even if not identical to the Cornell and Brown resolutions...
...smoker action followed a defeat, 10-3, of the motion of Paul L. Scher '57 to abolish the function outright. The group then passed unanimously a bill by Larry R. Johnson '58, calling for Council appointment of a committee of members of past Union and Smoker committees to recommend to next year's Union committee the results of its investigation...
...Hall is a study in perpetual motion. In three years he has traveled an estimated half a million miles around the U.S., consulting the party brass, greeting the voters (he has an elephantine memory for names, faces and telephone numbers), giving pep talks to sagging local organizations, and keeping the Republican machine in good working order. In Washington he has exercised his talent for lowering ceilings by consolidating the national committee's office space, whittling down the permanent staff, thus saving $300,000 a year in rents and payroll costs. He meets nearly every day with the President...