Word: motions
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Toote in a purple cassock with a shoulder-sash of white and pale blue carrying a placard: "Independent Church. The Black Jews of the Judea Tribe of Israel, driven out of Judea into Abyssinia by the Gentiles." There were many other placards. One read: "By the science of perpetual motion, the Negro will conquer Africa...
...Campaign Manager, Clem L. Shaver, was dictated by the fact that each was just accustoming himself to his new part. Shaver, new to the arena of National politics, conferred and conferred again with members of the Democratic National Committee, with a view to setting up and setting in motion an active organization. Mr. Davis played golf with Frank L. Polk, chatted with visiting politicians, saw reporters daily, completed his acceptance speech, which is to be short-about 4,000 words (three pages of TIME) in length. Of it, he pertinently said: "If I were to put into the speech...
...instinct to be good divorced completely from the obligation to be intelligent lies in the tendency of those unripe in American politics to worship mere independence. I confess that I have found that independence is a bad way to get joint action of any kind in real motion. Usually when two independents rally around the banner of independence it results in two banners of independence and then four and then eight. No man or woman in the world is so independent as an independent. As political workers they are usually fanatically unselfish for six months and then as temperamental...
Premier Herriot then proposed Premier MacDonald as President of the Conference. The motion was seconded by Premier Theunis of Belgium and carried unanimously. After this protracted exchange of banalities, the Conference settled down to work. The result of the first morning's session was the establishment of three committees...
Prof. Newton, of Cambridge Univ.−The three laws of motion, foundation of all physics and engineering...