Word: motions
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Grew so riotous during debate upon a motion to break off relations with Soviet Russia, that the Speaker was obliged to announce temporary adjournment. Impassion keynoters...
Crunching ominously, the Conservative political steam roller demolished a Laborite motion implying "no-confidence...
...Social Highwayman (Montague Love, Dorothy Devore). Newspaper critics objected aggrievedly to the palpable injustices to their trade in this invention. It is not on the records that a motion picture has ever reincarnated newspaper life with decent reality. Cowboys, apaches, and residents of Newport have probably far more grievous protests. They simply lack an outlet. Critics caviled in this case because cub reporters do not write editorials under their signatures on the front pages. This cub, finally fired, won fame by capturing a highwayman by masquerading as the highwayman himself. All this in the spirit of broad farce that...
...introduce a resolution before the Tacna-Arica Plebiscitary Commission (of which he is chairman) intimating that the holding of a plebiscite is impossible in view of the failure of Chile to guarantee fair voting conditions to anti-Chilean Tacna-Aricans. After several days of hesitation the commission adopted the motion...
...opening of college next fall, the new Harvard Square motion picture theatre will be completed and showing films regularly, it was announced yesterday by the management...