Word: motions
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Eric Johnston, president of the Motion Picture Association of America and a man willing to give his opinion on any subject, concurred: "We must make sure that we don't chip away our freedoms to get at conspirators. ... It would be folly to do anything that in the long run proved as harmful as the things we seek to correct." His solution: ban Communists from office in unions, cooperatives and corporations...
...called. Breathlessly, she sounded the tocsin around town. A few calls lined up Loretta Young and others for lunch at Romanoff's (front booth). Others alerted the 20th Century-Fox lot. Still others set RKO-Pathe and the homes of Merle Oberon (cocktails) and Sam Goldwyn (dinner) in motion. At dinner, Mrs. Goldwyn's innocent remark, "Why, you're just as comfortable as an old shoe," caused the Colonel to start. Due to a luggage mixup, he was wearing brown shoes with his tuxedo...
...Include radio and motion pictures in the constitutional guarantees of press freedom...
...Liberal Government easily won its first test of strength in 1947. Last week, after 14 days of leaden debate on the policy-setting Speech from the Throne (TIME, Feb. 10), the House voted on a Progressive-Conservative motion of no confidence in the Government. The Government...
...citizens were very angry." He demanded that all U.S. troops in Manitoba (there are 113 at the Canadian base at Fort Churchill) be forced to leave. A few days later, the Manitoba Legislature's only Labor-Progressive (Communist), William Kardash, seconded the motion...