Word: motions
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Name. A motion to strike out the word "Protestant" before the name of the Episcopal Church on the title page of the Book of Prayer was, after much debate, laid on the table...
...this group Harry Pollit is notable as "the ablest Communist in Great Britain." At the International Trade Unionist Conference at Scarborough (TIME, Sept. 21), he was one of those most instrumental in rushing through the "motion of censure against the British Empire," which so alarmed reactionaries. And it was he who cried that, because of the machinations of the Conservatives, "every inch of the Empire is drenched with blood...
...wildly impolitic to prophesy that The Vanishing American will be as popular a film as The Covered Wagon. Only time can tell that. It is built on the same plan, acted (principally by Richard Dix) with similar excellence, and is continuously interesting. For this, the very finest type of motion picture, there can be naught but eulogy...
...management of the Union has announced that tonight at 7.30 o'clock the performance will again be given. Coach Cowles of the University tennis team will be present to explain the line points of the slow-motion pictures of Tilden, Johnston, Richard, and Williams...
Tilden, Johnston, Richards, and Williams, who last year represented the United States in the Davis Cup matches, will all be flashed on the screen tonight. Each of the stars will be shown making all the ground, service, and volley strokes, and the motion is so slow that it is possible to see clearly how the different parts of each stroke are executed...