Word: motioning
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...motion to discontinue the "Scribe" because "it has not lived up to the traditions and cannons of good taste" was passed by a vote of 23 to 13 with six abstensions...
During the debate, proponents of the motion charged that the "Scribe" was unrepresentative of student opinion and had run statements "which were defamatory, vulgar, and bordering on deliberate lies...
...motion to form a committee to investigate the possibility of forming a new Association newspaper was adopted by a 36 to 2 vote. Rodger H. Strait 3Dv, editor of the former "Scribe", will head the new committee. Strait supported the motion to abolish the newspaper...
...innocence that is both amusing and ironical. His girl friend, Georgia Boyko, tries for much the same spirit in her role and achieves a reasonably coherent characterization. But the best job of acting is that of Sharon Gans, as the knowing old lady who sets the plot in motion. Although the actress is young, the character fully bears the burden of old age and its tedium...
...past five years the revolution toward independent production has been spearheaded by United Artists, one of Hollywood's oldest motion picture distributing companies. United Artists was formed in 1919 to distribute the independent films of its four owners: Mary Pickford, Douglas Fairbanks, Charles Chaplin, D. W. Griffith. In early 1951 the company was losing $100,000 a week. It was so desperate that it offered a group headed by Lawyers Arthur Krim and Robert Benjamin half the company's stock, valued at $5,400,000 and full control for ten years at the nominal cost...