Word: motions
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...make a show of courting unpopularity: members are inclined to suspect any attempt to be popular as evidence of bad taste. Last week Tory Chancellor of the Exchequer Richard A. ("Rab") Butler remembered good politics as he rose, white-faced and grim, to defend himself against a Labor censure motion condemning him for "incompetence and neglect." The week before, Butler had been scourged by Labor's ambitious Hugh Gaitskell, a former Chancellor himself, who demanded that Butler resign (TIME, Nov. 7). Now Butler set out to defend his emergency tax-raising budget to combat British inflation. He not only...
Supplementary Motion...
...motion to dismiss the indictment against Kamin supplements the one Aldrich refused to consider last April, defense counsel Calvin P. Bartlett said last night. The new motion cites last summer's dismissal of the indictment against Corliss Lamont as a precedent...
Aidrich may announce when he will pass on the defense motion, or when he will give his verdict on the two remaining counts of the indictment against Kamin...
They had presented a nine-point motion for acquittal immediately after the prosecution rested its case last Monday. Aldrich responded to it only to acquit Kamin on two counts, ruling that the questions on which the counts were based were not pertinent to the subject into which McCarthy was inquiring at the hearing...