Word: motions
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...registrar's office so that nobody could keep tabs on him? In Chicago the athletic committee of the Western Conference questioned two professors this way and that. After a while they closed the door and talked over Iowa's petition that the committee rescind its motion, adopted last May, barring Iowa from Big Ten athletics after Jan. 1. They decided that, since Iowa had not removed the players originally objected to, Iowa could stay...
Triumvirate. Banker of the triumvirate is Harold Leonard Stuart, bachelor president of famed Halsey, Stuart & Co. In 1927 his firm issued a booklet, The Motion Picture Industry as a Basis for Bond Financing, at the same time underwriting their first Fox issue. Trustee Stuart will represent his firm as Fox bankers and his firm's customers as large investors...
...motion picture companies stockmarket breaks do not mean diminished profits, for like tobacco companies they are "depression proof." But at this particular time the stockmarket decline brought severe trouble to Cineman Fox. During the recent period of expansion he had needed great sums of cash. These he had obtained by short-term loans upon the stock of acquired companies. With $91,000,000 of these notes falling due, with his collateral down, with conditions bad for refinancing, Cineman Fox for the first time needed assistance. Last week he summoned aid by appointing a trustee-triumvirate consisting of himself, a banker...
Upon returning to America, he interested several prominent officials at Harvard in his idea with the result that the University Film Foundation was organized. Constantly the almost unlimited scientific knowledge of Harvard was put in a position to be demonstrated to the general public through the medium of the motion picture...
...sending out hundreds of letters, has made the Foundation's progress more rapid than could have been possible without such help. Among the collection of the University Film Foundation are now found films on microscopic animal life, uncivilized barbarians, and modern industry, medical life. The value of the motion picture as a medium of education lies in the greater impression on the mind caused by pictures, contrasted with books or even experiment, for a single film may take about 30 minutes to show a process involving weeks of work and study...