Word: motions
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...drain on our faculties by outside duties. Everybody knows the feeling of vacancy, inefficiency, and even inaptitude, which comes when one's imaginative stock has run low. That is the time when he wants to read a novel, to see a play, or to go to a motion picture. The superficial feeling is that he does it because he is bored, just as the superficial feeling when we eat is that we do it because we are hungry; but in the one case as in the other, the fundamental impulse is to do certain things to meet certain needs...
...Labor motion that every person should be eligible for an old age pension on reaching 70 years of age without reference to income was defeated by a narrow government majority of 22. Great excitement in the Labor benches and loud cries of "Resign...
...Catholic, Nationalist, and Fascisti parties absorb the attention of all Italians. The Grand Fascista Council, at a meeting in Rome, requested its Masonic members to choose between Fascismo and Freemasonry. A sequel to this "order" was enacted at a meeting of the Rome Municipal Council, at which a motion was presented that only Nationalists, Fascisti, or Liberals not belonging to the Masonic Order should be eligible to fill existing vacancies in the city administration. The motion also included a statement that if for any reason it was found necessary to nominate members of other parties, they should be required...
...onslaughts of the opposition. The House of Peers called upon the government, of which Baron Kato is Prime Minister, to "consolidate its diplomatic policy," describing it as "retrogressive and weak "-particularly in China. This gave the cue to the opposition in the Lower House, who brought forward a motion expressing lack of confidence in the Cabinet. Kato, however, was strong enough to defeat it by an overwhelming majority...
John D. Rockefeller: "When I recovered from my recent illness, I went out and played golf. Motion picture men photographed me holing a 14-foot putt. Arthur Brisbane, Hearst Editor, commented: 'Alexander, addressing his dissatisfied generals, held up his purple cloak, saying that was all that he had got out of it. Mr. Rockefeller might hold up his little golf ball and putter, saying: "This is about...