Word: motions
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Radio and motion pictures should not be considered part...
...estimates, enactment of the tax-cut bill will still leave a surplus of over $5 billion next year-provided that Congress cut the budget by $4½ billion, as pledged by the Senate. So the Senate wouldn't wait for George. On a straight party vote the motion was defeated...
...independence but fears a pan-Islamic movement which might engulf the Christians of Lebanon. Little, white-thatched Paris el Khoury of Syria has spent a lifetime in politics opposing the Turks, the French, and now the Zionists. He likes a sedentary life, moves at the speed of a slow-motion film. Asked last week if he thought the Assembly was dragging, El Khoury, with great deliberation, said: "No, I do not consider that things are moving slowly...
Returned Traveler. In later, more edifying sessions the convention: 1) resolved in favor of admitting to the U.S. approximately 400,000 of Europe's D.P.s; 2) condemned the motion picture industry for glamorizing immorality; 3) planned a long-range program of education in race relations; 4) re-elected President Louie Newton...
...filled tones, "The overture...Duel in the Sun..." And thus begins David O. Selznick's nine-million dollar horse opera. Of this pile of cash a very substantial share has been invested in what has been perhaps the most immense hoopla campaign since Thomas A. Edison invented the motion picture. Such an unparalelled barrage of publicity has been such a long stretch of time that quite a sizable fraction of the population already is intent upon seeing the picture, for no particular reason other than having heard its name so many times. And a good many of them are liable...