Word: quorum
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...member of the Quorum of Twelve Apostles of the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-Day Saints (Mormon) since...
...many seats, especially in Caracas, had been certified to the U.R.D. and COPEI opposition parties in the two days of free vote-counting that the boss's majority fell short of the two-thirds needed to assure a quorum for assembly business. The dictator took characteristic action to make sure that members of the parties from which he had snatched victory would not boycott the new assembly...
Situation Normal. One day last week, Sewell Avery called a three-man quorum of his executive committee without telling President Ball about his plans. In the office next day, Stu Ball got the shock of a lifetime. In strode Controller Edmund A. Krider, 40, with the word that Ball was out as president and that Krider was in. Sewell Avery let it be known that so far as he was concerned. Lawyer Ball had never got "comfortable" in his retailing job. But Ward employees gossiped that Stu Ball had simply become a mite too independent for the boss...
...President by June 23). Rhee invited some moderates among the opposition to a party at a hot springs resort near Pusan, to talk over ways & means of compromising their difficulties. After the party, 37 of them were driven to the Assembly hall and furnished a silent, glum quorum while the 60-man pro-Rhee minority voted unanimously for their boss...
...supposed to elect a new President for a four-year term beginning next month. But with eleven Assemblymen in jail, others under constant police threat and the capital at Pusan under martial law (in defiance of an Assembly vote), Rhee's opponents boycotted the Assembly. Without a legal quorum, the Assembly voted, 60-to-0 with 37 abstentions, to keep Rhee in office until a new President is elected. Lacking a quorum the move was hardly legal, but it seemed nevertheless to leave Strongman Syngman in the saddle...