Word: motions
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Dates: during 1910-1919
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...House of Representatives of the United States on the motion of Representative Washburn of Worcester passed the bill which allows for the construction of a drawless bridge with a twelve foot clearance over the Charles River at Boylston street, yesterday afternoon. The Senate passed this bill February 9, and it will become law when signed by the President. It will then remain for local authorities to conduct the arrangements for the construction of the bridge...
...Senate of the United States on the motion of Senator H. C. Lodge '71 passed the bill drawn by R. H. Dana '74, which allows for the construction of a drawless bridge over the Charles River at Boylston street, yesterday afternoon. In the morning the Committee on Commerce voted to substitute this bill for the amended McCall bill which was passed by the House last June...
...Aeronautical Society will hold an exhibit of cinematograph pictures of aeroplanes in flight in Brattle Hall tonight at 8 o'clock. Motion views of the late Ralph Johnstone performing the "spiral glide," LeBlanc making a world's speed record of 68 miles an hour, Paulhan flying at Los Angeles, and other aviators will be shown. An admission fee of 50 cents will be charged to the public, but society members will be admitted free on showing their 1910-11 membership cards, which may be obtained from A. Sweetser '11, on payment of dues...
...Aeronautical Society will conduct a cinematograph exhibit of aeroplanes in flight, in Brattle Hall next Monday evening at 8 o'clock. Motion views of the late Ralph Johnstone performing the "spiral glide" in the Wright machine. Le Blanc in a Bleriot monoplane making a world's speed record of 68 miles an hour, Paulhan flying at Los Angeles, and other flyers at recent aviation meets, will be shown. A public admission of 50 cents will be charged, and society members will be admitted free on showing their 1910-11 membership cards, which may be obtained from A. Sweetser...
...John Hay, who, as Secretary of State, succeeded in getting Mexico and the United States to submit to the judgment of the court a claim involving the two nations. It was this act of John Hay's which literally saved the court, because it put the machinery in motion and if this step had not been taken mere disuse would have caused the court to vanish out of existence in a very short space of time. Almost any nation is willing to pass a high-sounding resolution in favor of peace, and in any peace convention which...