Word: motions
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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House of Commons. By unanimous vote of the House, a motion proposing mothers' pensions was passed...
...cried a Labor member. Mr. Leach said that what was needed were "new excavations to raise the lid from the sarcophagus of the New Testament." Major General J. E. B. Seely (Liberal) retorted: "If the Empire is to be defended by Sermons on the Mount, God help us !" A motion for closure was proposed, but was disallowed by the Speaker. The Government's certain defeat was thereby avoided...
...built to replace obsolete warships. The Liberal Party, after moving adjournment with the help of the Laborites, forced a debate. The Premier took the opportunity of lecturing his renegades on increasing the difficulties of the Government. He was promised that, if Labor members could not vote for the motion, they would not vote against it. In the evening, E. Thurtle, Laborite for Shoreditch, asked: "Will the honorable member inform the House whether or not this decision is to be taken as a great moral gesture to the world?" In a general answer the Premier stated that disarmament could only come...
...following, with only two short intermissions. It was stated that only the indomitable will of Premier Poincare and the indefatigable power of explanation and persuasion of the Minister of Finance, M. de Lasteyrie, a descendant of the famed orator Mirabeaii, made it possible to carry the closure motion...
Supporters of the motion pointed out that this is the first year that polo has been attempted at Harvard, and as the team lost by only half a point to Yale, last year's intercollegiate champion, there is evidence that the sport has possibilities for the future...