Word: motions
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Prohibition Party met also at Columbus only a day or two later. A few members presented a motion to dissolve the party, but it refused to be dissolved. It nominated for President, H. P. Paris of Clinton, Mo.; for Vice President, Miss Marie C. Brehm of Long Beach, Calif...
...motion expressing the Chamber's sympathy for Chancellor Seipel of Austria, an attempt against whose life was recently made (TIME, June...
...motion of confidance in the Government was passed by 361 to 107. Benito made a notable speech, arraigning the Opposition. Excerpts...
...demand boycott of all American motion pictures...
...Hale, director of the Mt. Wilson Observatory, writing in Scribner's Magazine (June), tells what is now known about sun spots. Sun spots are believed to be (though no astronomer is certain about it) regions of incandescent gas on the sun's surface, whirling with a centrifugal motion. Although they are really brighter and hotter than the most powerful electric light, they are so much cooler than the 'body of the sun itself, that they appear to us as dark spots. They move in very definite cycles of eleven years and one month. Starting at the poles...