Word: motions
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...hopping mad. Nonsense, they said; those fine Brahma bulls (which they had imported from Brazil) did not have foot & mouth disease. But the bulls did carry the dread disease, and Mexican herds in four central states and the Federal District were infected. Last week, energetic President Aleman set in motion a $40 million, three-month campaign to smash the epidemic. Emergency squads prepared to slaughter and cremate as many as a million head of cattle-one-tenth of Mexico's herds...
Champion crowd-puller of the year, reported U.S. movie exhibitors (polled by the trade's Motion Picture Herald), was 42-year-old Bing Crosby - as he was the year before and the year before that...
...from seven to eleven. Eight hands went up, but since Gromyko's did not, Johnson declared the proposal defeated. Gromyko shook his head. Realizing that the Russian did not intend to veto, Johnson asked for negative votes. Only Poland and The Netherlands (neither has a veto right) responded. "Motion carried," said Mr. Johnson...
Later, Sir Alexander Cadogan abstained from voting on a proposal to include the whole of Greek territory in the investigation. But he nodded and smiled at Gromyko, as if to say "No veto" (or "After you, Alphonse") and the motion was carried...
...Willner '47 and Howard Swarts-man '47 will defend the motion of the evening: "Resolved, That the Constitution be amended so as to remove the present incumbent from the presidency when the Congress is controlled by the opposing party." The Council will try for its sixth victory of the fall...