Word: motions
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Willis. Goaded by the pro-Hoover Scripps-Howard newspapers, of which there are six in Ohio, Candidate Willis enlivened the week by crying out at Columbus: "In these times we hear much of chains-chain broadcasting, chain motion pictures, chain stores, chain newspapers, chains in international trade. The fact is, under the chain system . . . the great middle class of our people face all the time greater difficulties in maintaining its independent existence. . . . Since when has the Republican Party come to the place where its candidates are to be dictated by a chain of newspapers that have never supported the Republican...
...heralds and standard bearers, caparisoned, magnificent. Squealing and rasping followed an immense native orchestra. Next came, lumbering and lurching, a score of royal elephants bearing jewel-studded howdahs. Shielded by the howdah curtains sat King Monivong and others of the blood royal whose stern stomachs easily withstood the motion. As the procession passed, both French and native troops lined the way, saluted the funeral car, and kept the multitude of mourners back...
Vice President Smith replied: "Our outlook in the near future seems good." Nevertheless the stockholders adopted a motion of adjournment to some date within the next three months when President William Childs would be on hand "to answer queries...
...method of taking motion pictures is to tilt the camera at various odd angles and glimpse life from strange points of vantage. Similar in idea, it would seem are the studies by William E. Barton of Abraham Lincoln. Mr. Barton, who wrote "The Women Lincoln Loved," "The Great Good Man," and "A Beautiful Blunder" to supplement his "Life of Abraham Lincoln," has with diminished success attempted to correlate the lives of the Emancipator and Walt Whitman...
...Nelson '04, lecturer and tutor in the division of History, Government, and Economics, and assistant dean of Harvard College, and C. C. Buell '23, captain of the 1922 football team, are the principal speakers of the evening. They will be introduced by Harper. Motion pictures of last fall's Harvard-Yale and Harvard-Indiana football games will be shown after the addresses, while K. A. Perry '28 will do the act which was so popular on the musical club tour this winter. Roy Lamson '29 and his Harvardians will play at intervals throughout the evening. The double quartet...