Word: moving
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Terminal Coal Corporation, who were returning to their homes from work, were fired upon by a party known to be a striking miner, one of the negroes being, wounded; that, upon his being taken to his home, a number of negroes in the camp, enraged thereby, started a retaliatory move against the strikers, and that, after this fracas was over, one of the negroes, at the point of a gun, was compelled to sign a so-called confession dictated to suit the purposes of the striking miners...
Chairman Madden of the Appropriations Committee: ". . . The amendment offered by the gentleman from Maryland is a subterfuge. Why does he not move to repeal the Volstead Act, if he is in earnest? . . . The law is here and here it will remain. The law will be enforced, irrespective of what Maryland may think about it. ... I am a Wet-I would probably vote for a legitimate motion to repeal, but never ... for any such subterfuge as he now proposes...
...unexpected was this move that the galleries, packed with Latin spectators, first gasped, then cheered. Hubbub and furious cross-comments ensued among the delegates. Then Chief U. S. Delegate Charles Evans Hughes rose, visibly bristling with wrath. A gentleman's agreement, arrived at in committee, had been broken! Mr. Hughes is a gentleman. Said he, in measured tones, tinged with vehemence...
Significantly at this point enters the question of Anschluss: the much- mooted union of Austria with Germany. Such union is believed by many economists to be vital to the commercial survival of Austria. It could be made unnecessary by moving the League to Vienna. But Germans want Anschluss, want to absorb Austria. Therefore Germany, with a Council Seat on the League, may be expected to fight tooth and claw any move to move the League...
...will not need many more moves such as this one to show the U. S. L. T. A. that the line at present dividing professional and amateur players has become almost invisible. There is certainly nothing to be lost by permitting the open tournaments, and the stimulus they will give to public interest is alone worth gaining. It seems as if the Association has recognized the fact that its old position is rapidly becoming untenable; if the latest move is to be taken as indicating a tendency it is inevitable that it must soon be re-established on some...