Word: motions
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...first clash between the Government attorneys and the defense came when Mr. Roberts asked that the twelve jurors be kept under guard during the entire time of the trial. Said he: "We make this motion because of the tremendous importance of the case . . . and because it is first a charge of improper use of money, which amounts to bribery . . . and that no carping criticism and no breath of suspicion can be said, rightly or wrongly, to have interfered with the proper functioning of the machinery of justice in this case...
...Resolved: That this house favors the revision of the Versailles Treaty in respect to the war guilt of the Central Powers" was the question before the house in the Living Room of the Union. Speaking in defense of this motion, Professor Barnes presented an unanswerable case, and so carried his audience along that at the close of his speech C. P. Wright 1G rose and moved that there be no vote on the question. This motion was seconded, but defeated by 75 to 50, and the subsequent poll supported Professor Barnes...
...have asked a banker 20 years ago for the financing of a cinema concern would have been of no avail. He had probably never heard of motion pictures. Or, if he had, he held them in contempt as grotesque novelties of penny arcades, honkytonks. And he classed the cinema entrepreneur as a probably illiterate and possibly dirty "outsider." Today the banker reaches out for cinema investments, which are all the more attractive because they represent a $1,500,000,000 amusement industry operated on a cash basis. Not one of the 45,000,000 people who in the course...
Compulsory Cinema Religion. Signor Mussolini founded during the week, with the support of the Holy See, the Institute of Religious Art and Education. The Institute will occupy itself at once with the production of motion pictures illustrating the teachings of the Roman Catholic Church. Lest these films prove unpopular, Il Duce decreed last week the obligatory showing of one such Roman Catholic film drama as a part of every motion picture program released in Italy after the new religious films are ready...
...will have slides and motion pictures to illustrate his talk on the development of aviation. Many of the pictures are of aerial disasters and of scenes during the late World...