Word: motions
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Before the Convention adjourned a motion was adopted...
...secure ratification for either the Mellon-Berenger or Caillaux-Churchill debt pact until the Chamber reassembles from its imminent summer recess.* Finally he demanded and secured, for the first time in French history, the passage of a "five minute rule" against filibustering. "Gagged." During the ensuing debate on a motion of confidence several Communist Deputies attempted to shout past the five minute rule, were dragged from the Tribune by ungentle ushers, shrieked, "Traitors! Assassins! We are being gagged!" Smashing Votes. Amid guttering forensics, the Cabinet received an overwhelming vote of confidence: 358 to 131. Premier Poincaré smiled...
...ousted from Peking (TIME, April 5, et seq.) its co-conquerors, Super-Tuchuns Wu Pei-fu and Chang Tso-lin, would set up a stable government. That hope has eluded fulfillment like a mirage and Peking has grown hot, hotter, too hot. Last week the delegates passed a motion to adjourn indefinitely, packed their traps and trinkets, departed...
...Never Know Women (Florence Vidor and Lowell Sherman). Ernest Vajda, suave Hungarian creator of stage comedy, has been retained to write a motion picture. He has again indicated that the one talent does not necessarily embrace the other. You Never Know Women is pale and thin. It tells of a Russian vaudeville troupe in the U. S.; how the man-about-town interfered with the lovely acrobat's love for the magician. Miss Vidor, Mr. Sherman and an originally resourceful director called William Wellman have saved much from the wreck...
...work. The cost of financing concerns to operate the "producers goods" and return a profit is expected to be borne by loans from the U. S. and allied nations. Sir Frederick Whyte: "It is very doubtful whether the united armies of Asia could ever be set in motion. Such an enterprise implies a unity of purpose of which there is no sign, and therefore, to add up the millions of China and India and then multiply them by the power of Japan, is the arithmetic of bedlam...