Word: motions
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...deficit of $10 billion or more in the fiscal year ahead, overseas rumblings showing that 1958 is no year to retreat toward isolationism by building higher tariff fences and slashing foreign aid. After pondering the facts, plus the sentiments of the voters back home, many a congressional man in motion switched direction to follow his followers...
...whose votes might have helped were not even in town for the debate, e.g., Tennessee's Albert Gore, who 16 weeks before was lecturing the Senate about the unemployment breadlines back home. And of the liberals on hand, not all sided with Kennedy and Douglas. On the key motion to substitute Kennedy's broad proposals for Harry Byrd's limited aims. Kennedy lost Arizona's Carl Hayden. Alabama's Lister Hill and John Sparkman, Oklahoma Millionaire Robert Kerr and Texas' Ralph Yarborough...
...Work in Motion. At work in the White House until 9:45 one morning, he walked down the South Lawn to a quivering olive-drab giant, Army H34 Helicopter No. 64316, that needed only 34 minutes to set him down 80 miles away beside his home-town polling booth in Barlow Fire Hall, near Gettysburg. He tore the identifying #35 off the corner of his Pennsylvania primary ballot and boarded his bird again, whisking off to Harrisburg...
Early last week, by a vote of 557 to 0, the National Assembly humbly approved a motion expressing gratitude to the army for services it had rendered France "under the flag of the Republic." This farce had been scarcely played out when the Deputies went on to vote 473 to 93 in favor of giving Pflimlin special powers in Algeria-powers which Pflimlin blandly promised to delegate to General Raoul Salan, commander of the rebellious Algerian army...
...When motion pictures began to speak, more than one star of the silent screen, e.g., Corinne Griffith, John Gilbert, turned out to have a boondocks twang or a reedy pitch, and was never heard from again. But to Ronald Colman, whose English accent and pleasingly low register were envied from Metro to Paramount, the coming of sound meant second wind for one of the cinema's longest and most unvaryingly successful careers...