Word: motions
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Pacts. He declared positively that the Cabinet would hasten the entrance of Germany into the League, and announced his intention of calling for a vote of confidence on the morrow: "The Government will not attempt to carry on by backstairs tactics or shillyshallying." The session closed amid a Luther motion from the Centre...
Following the big hit made by the tennis and football motion pictures shown at the Union, the management has decided to stage similar affairs in connection with crew and track on February...
...motion for cloture came to a vote. Diplomats thronged the galleries; Congressmen hurried in. President Coolidge, kept closely informed of what was passing, sent over a certified copy of the protocol. The name of the Ku Klux Klan was dragged across the chamber and hung on Senator Reed, who flung it off. Hiram Johnson got the last six minutes for objecting...
...Bureau (a onetime immigrant who began her career as a garment worker), pounded in vain for order. At length the resolution was voted on and she declared it lost. Later, however, a special evening session was held to hear arguments on each side, and finally a compromise motion was passed: "Whereas equality for men and women in industry is a controversial matter now before Congress and the state legislatures, be it "Resolved, That this conference, called together under the auspices of the United States Department of Labor, recommends that the Women's Bureau make a comprehensive investigation...
...package and we must deal with the three as one. It is the theory of evolution which has swept the country that is causing the very foundations of liberty, morals and Christianity to totter. . . . We must control the medium which controls the people, whether it be the newspaper, motion picture or what, and we must rebuild in the minds of our children the religion of our fathers. . . . We are not going to grapple with science, but we are going to work with it. True science can go hand in hand with the Bible and we do not plan any fight...