Word: motions
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...will get under way this week in earnest. At Gettysburg, Pa., more than 400 Republican leaders will gather to hear President Eisenhower and Vice President Richard Nixon launch the G.O.P campaign. At Harrisburg, a few miles to the north. Adlai Stevenson will put the Democratic campaign machinery in official motion with a 30-minute television and radio speech...
...Hollywood, outraged Newshen Hedda Hopper decried the fact that Clark Gable's contract had a clause inserted in 1935 (before TV was born) permitting the studio eventually to release all of Gable's movies to TV, tut-tutted: "How will our motion-picture theaters compete with TV showing Garbo, Gable, Garland and all the Barrymores in the greatest pictures ever made...
...final count was 755½ for Kefanver and 589 for Kennedy, who appeared in time to make the motion for Kefauver's nomination by acclamation. Estes Kefauver ambled onto the platform to express his gratitude. He was half dead from his strenuous exertions, but it made little difference in his appearance. Waving his hands and grinning broadly, he shone all over with delight at finally winning the place−or almost the place−on the national ticket that he had been working hard for lo those four long years...
...producing every kind of goods−all the instruments of land, sea, and air communication; all the weapons of war, from the mechanical bird above the clouds to the submarines beneath the waves−all would cease to function, and rust would overcome every iron part beyond hope of motion or life...
...Best Qualified." He would, he said, read his handwritten statement twice. After the first time, the newsmen "who feel like they want to break a leg to get to the telephone may do so." The second reading would be for "the slow-motion boys." As flashbulbs blazed around Truman, he told photographers: "You fellows quit. You've had enough now." Then, savoring every word, he began to read: "This statement is dated August 11, 1956, at 3:30 o'clock in the afternoon, Chicago time...