Word: motions
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Premier Ramsay MacDonald introduced a motion calling for a vote of censure on the Government for not having done anything to alleviate the growing unemployment evil. Last year, when Mr. MacDonald was Premier, the shoe was on the other foot. Labor came into power, but was unable to do anything. This year, Mr. MacDonald is having his innings. He pointed out that unemployment was increasing and yet the Government did nothing. "What did the Government intend...
...films are said to be the most valuable advertising for U. S. goods that exist, particularly in South America. Makers of clothing in this country are said to be profiting heavily by the demand for their goods created by U. S. motion pictures exhibiting in South America and the Orient...
THAT NICE YOUNG COUPLE-Francis Hackett - Boni, Liveright ($2.00). Floundering fearfully through the litter of spare adjectives, similes and metaphors that has been accumulating in his office for years, Critic Hackett of The New Republic and elsewhere finally gets his first novel out in the open and into sustained motion on Page 245, where childless Eleanor Byrd Beale from the Middle West is about to meet Demi-Artist Stephen Tannay from the South, fall really in love for the first time in her life and be willfully unfaithful to her husband, Lawyer Edward Beale of Brooklyn, Harvard and Manhattan...
...Monarchy motion in the Reichstag to substitute for the black-red-gold republican flag the old black-white-red colors of Imperial Germany was rejected...
...Dayton, Judge J. L. Godsey, counsel for the defense, entered a motion in the Circuit Court to quash the indictment on the grounds 1) that the act under which it was brought violates the Constitution of Tennessee in its guarantee of religious freedom and 2) that the indictment itself is "vague" and violates the U. S. Constitution in its guarantee of information to one accused, as to the nature of his crime and its guarantee of free speech...