Word: motions
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...citizen was not alone in sacrificing. Britain, Canada, even abundant Argentine set in motion plans to tighten their citizens' belts, increase their food contributions to prevent a world tragedy (see INTERNATIONAL...
Winston Churchill is not the only statesman who gets away from it all by painting pictures. Many a hoarse U.S. Senator and Representative has spent his weekends in ear-ringing silence, imposing, with the mere motion of a paintbrush, his will upon unresisting canvas. Last week some 80 such paintings and sculptures (plus a few by wives, secretaries and friends) were unveiled in Washington's Congressional Club...
...President a bill calculated to curb his "coercive practices" in radio. Walter Reuther, John L. Lewis and other labor leaders had stolen his tricks or invented new ones. Were others taking James Caesar's place? Did the booing bother him? Last week in Manhattan, representatives of eight major motion-picture studios got the answer: Petrillo was improving all the time...
...producers reached for aspirin, and did some figuring. They groaned that Petrillo wanted a 1,200% increase. The new demands, they cried, would raise the cost of motion-picture music by $15,000,000. Blandly Caesar demurred. The cost, he said, would increase by only...
...American industries, motion pictures is the only one which rests not in the hands of experts, but in the charge of persons who have studied neither the theater, nor music, nor history, nor even European films...