Word: motions
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...party's following stop was at Spokane. There the President was taken on an automobile trip by the Governor and the state's two Senators and shown motion pictures of the region, the reason being that Washingtonians desire the Federal Government to undertake an irrigation project there, costing about $250,000,000. That evening at Spokane, Mr. Harding delivered an address on "unlocking the treasure house of our national resources." Without committing himself to the Columbia Basin plan, he advocated a gradual development of national resources...
After its great sweep across the plains the Presidential Special reached Cheyenne, Wyo. Five cowgirls rode up and delivered bouquets of wild flowers to Mrs. Harding. The motion picture cameras missed the presentation; so Mrs. Harding had the girls do it over again, and saw that they were well photographed. The President said he was sorry for the passing of the cowboy, but could not bear the passing of the cowgirl...
...dispute arose over a proposed reduction in the estimates for child welfare in Scotland. Maxton and Wheatley rose and accused the seconders of the motion of being murderers. They were asked to withdraw their remarks, but refused, despite the advice of J. Ramsey McDonald, Parliamentary Labor leader. They were then suspended by a vote of 258 to 70. The Rev. Campbell then took up the cry of " murderers." He was suspended by a vote of 276 to 60. Buchanan soon after heard Sir George Hamilton refer to Emanuel Shinwell as a " Jew." Shinwell said he was proud of the fact...
Marcus" Loew has purchased for $850,000 the Lexington Avenue Opera House, Manhattan, which was built by the late Oscar Hammerstein, and which has been used off and on for the production of lyric dramas. Mr. Loew will turn this theatre into a motion picture house. You might expect doleful complaints and bitter comments from the partisans of Art, but Mephisto in Musical America takes the transaction rather philosophically. Says...
Engaged. Miss Pearl Ginsberg ("Pearl Shepard"), motion picture actress, to Prince Mohammed Ali Ibrahim, heir to the Egyptian throne. Accompanied by her mother, Mis? Ginsberg and the Prince sailed on the Aquitania with the intention of being married in Alexandria, if they obtain King Fuad's approval...