Word: motions
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Class Fascist." By then the House was deep in invective over another sort of execution-the Government's "guillotine" to speed two of its key measures (nationalization of inland transport, and town-&-country planning). Churchill stormed that the Government motion to cut off committee discussion was "strangulation of parliamentary debate . . . legislation by Government decree." Stung by ironic cheers from the Labor side, he lashed at the "idea of the government of the people, by the officials, for the party bosses," cried that "the liberties and the free life of Britain are in great danger" from Socialism...
...members of the anti-Communist Bloc Populaire last week asked the Dominion Parliament to outlaw the Labor Progressive Party "because it is in fact a Communist Party under another name." The motion probably will not get far. The Government knew that banning the Labor Progressive Party would not stop the Communists. The Communists are always a name ahead of the Government...
...Theater consists of exhuming eight movies that might just as well have remained in their graves. Though they were all successful pictures, only one, "The Green Years," struggles along a little above mediocrity. Evenly divided between long, sentimental sagas and standard musicals, this is a sad review of the motion pictures in the last few years...
Featured in the March issue of Motion Picture, a fan magazine which normally confines itself, to rhapsodic accounts of the stars' daily routines, is a triptych of articles on "Divorce in Hollywood." The authors: famed churchmen of three faiths -Msgr. Fulton J. Sheen, Rabbi Sidney E. Goldstein, and the Rev. Harry Emerson Fosdick. All three agree that 1) the true strength of a nation rests on the family; 2) the off-again-on-again marriages of Hollywood stars set a bad national fashion-and are at least partly responsible for the soaring U.S. divorce rate; 3) Hollywood marriage, therefore...
Members endorsing the motion insisted that the issue was not whether the HLU was "red-baiting," but how it could get better results from united action. A speaker cited the destruction of the American Student Union when it was taken over by the Communists in 1941, concluding that the Reds were a non-assimilable group...