Word: motions
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Chairman F. Trubee Davison of the Crime Commission prompty set his organization in motion, secured the cooperation of prominent men throughout the country...
...education program of the A. F. of L. is the cinema. Last week a contract was signed for production in Chicago of a motion picture showing the evolution of Labor from slavery to the Federation. The eight hour day, closed vs. open shop, child labor questions, will all be filmed and sent forth, supplemented by lecturers...
Replied he: "No." Asked if he were satisfied with conditions at Ellis Island, he replied: "No, I cannot say I am satisfied with conditions, and I hope an improvement will come before long." ¶ By a majority of 127 votes, the House defeated a Labor motion to reduce the naval replacement program, outlined a fortnight ago by Premier Baldwin (TIME, Aug. 3). Chancellor of the Exchequer Winston Churchill, who originally was against the program, was forced to defend the Government's naval policy, and a bad time he had. Ex-Premier Ramsay MacDonald (Labor) reproached him for "arming when...
Last week it was announced that three of them-Dr. Albert Shaw, editor of The Review of Reviews; Arthur Brisbane, Hearst columnist and editor; John H. Perry, President of the American Press Association; together with two "movie" men, Will H. Hays, President of the Motion Picture Producers' and Distributors' Association, and Charles H. Christie (of Christie Comedies)-had bought an island off the coast of Florida. The island is Innerarity, onetime stronghold of pirates, near Pensacola...
...suggested that the film industry might profitably be protected and subsidized and concluded his speech with a moving appeal for industrial peace. The motion was lost by a majority...