Word: motions
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...move came toward the end of a two-hour session in which the picketing issue occupied virtually all of the discussion and followed a unanimous vote of the Committee to reconsider the defeat of a similar motion earlier in the evening...
...vote, the University-wide Committee on Discrimination last night adopted a motion which will establish a picket line in front of the Club 100 this evening...
...motion to reconsider, which led directly to the approval of outside picketing, came when the Committee heard a member announce that the Liberal Union Executive Committee had previously decided to initiate a picket line whether the Committee approved such a move...
...group also passed a motion asking that a meeting with the Cambridge Civic Unity Committee be arranged some time late this week or early next week...
...saved Greenwood. As Big Ben boomed midnight he moved an end to debate and a call to vote. Bedlam broke again. It was almost a minute before he could be heard. Then Tory Sir Gifford Fox raised a parliamentary pinpoint, contended that Greenwood was out of order because his motion was made after, not exactly at, 12 o'clock as procedure stipulates. Sir Gifford himself was hoisted on a point of procedure. He did not have on a hat-and regulations call for a member to be "sitting and covered" when raising a point of order during a voting...