Word: motions
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...MacDonald led a savage attack in the Commons last week upon Conservative Prime Minister Stanley Baldwin, charging that he "disregarded the decencies of public life" when he recently refused to enter debate in defense of his coal policy (TIME, Nov. 28). Finally the Laborites introduced, last" week, a motion censuring the Government which was automatically voted down by the Conservative majority...
Silence. Comrade Litvinov, concluding his speech, offers the Soviet proposal in the form of a motion. . . . Silence. . . . The motion is not seconded. . . . Litvinov stands for a long minute, lips pursed, brow furrowed, interrogative. . . .Then the League gentlemen vent their feelings by adjourning for luncheon...
...Miss Perkins and Mr. Sutherland. Quietly they slip on deck and then descend a companionway to explore the ship. They come to the engine room. They discuss the engine. The engine replies by starting to turn over. Miss Perkins and Mr. Sutherland, rightly assuming that the yacht is in motion, are agitated, try to make their way back to their host, find that they are locked below deck. A pretty kettle of fish...
...House of Commons passed the week in niggling without result over a profusion of theoretical issues- such as, for example, an eventually defeated Laborite motion to censure the Government for "lack of enthusiasm in pushing world efforts for disarmament...
...Motive: To eliminate waste motion due to human stupidity, to accelerate service by mechanical perfection...