Word: motions
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...quite pleased and impressed with your May 26 article regarding the second generation in motion pictures. There are some third and fourth generations in the American theater. I fall into the category of the third. My grandfather, Frank Keenan, who came from the stage, was a big star in silent pictures ; I am sure that my father, Ed Wynn, needs no introduction, and I have been in pictures for the last 15 years...
Though Monegasques have talked off and on for years about introducing democratic reforms in their sunny land, which has no income taxes and no military service, the legislative council has never been anything more than a docile advisory body. Then, in February, the councilors unanimously passed a motion of censure against Rainier's French Minister of State, the luxury-loving Henry Soum. Just why they objected to the minister so, they never made quite clear, but they nevertheless demanded that he be fired. The Prince refused. He also rejected a resolution which, though couched in almost obsequious language...
...will make that known," snapped De Gaulle-and promptly released the text of a telegram that he had sent to Salan: "Concerning the annoying and untimely incident caused by the peremptory motion of the Committee of Public Safety of Algiers, I remind you that this committee has no other rights and role than to express, under your control, the opinions of its members...
...honest reappraisal forced him early in the '30s to begin hedging on the desirability of breaking away from the U.S. "I want my people to want independence," he explained to a friend in those days. "Once they do that, they will set powerful forces in motion and may bring things to the point where independence is unnecessary or even bad." Later, when Congress, piqued by anti-U.S. riots in Puerto Rico, briefly considered an independence bill that would have pushed the island outside U.S. tariff walls, Muñoz had switched his views so much that he likened...
Teachers' colleges are, by and large, farcical diploma mills churning out second-rate instructors on a conveyer belt of picayune courses--motion picture camera projection, physical education, fingerpainting. And because their facade is so widely realized, they attract primarily the aimless high school graduate with no particular talents and less interest in any profession. Staffed and stocked by this brand of mediocrity, education will continue to devolve...