Word: motions
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Motion for the recommendation came from Edward F. Burke '50, who told the Council that "secretaries and masters in certain Houses didn't seem to be as definite in their policy as Associate Dean Watson was in his recent statement...
...coalfields of the Pas-de-Calais, 30,000 Communist-led miners went on strike. That was enough to jar the delicate balance of French politics and set in motion a realignment of parties which may bring De Gaulle to power this spring...
Oscar Awards (Sat. 10:30p.m., ABC). The annual whoop-de-do of the Academy of Motion Picture Arts & Sciences...
...their place, as a working partner, he installed a fellow Bostonian, his wife Natalie, a pretty woman with flaming red hair (which was fine for color experiments). Kalmus borrowed $300,000 and made his first motion picture, The Gulf Between, in two colors (red and green). Kalmus thought it much better than another color process, British-developed Kinemacolor, then in use. "It was nothing," said Dr. Kalmus of his old competitor, "for a horse to have two tails,. one red and one green...
...House of Commons last week up rose Harold Wilson, chubby President of Britain's Board of Trade. Said he: "The negotiations between His Majesty's Government and the representatives of the American motion picture industry have resulted in an agreement." This was good news to Hollywood, which had in part blamed the 75% British tax on U.S. film profits for inciting to panic (TIME...