Word: quorum
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...uniform rent system to be instituted after the eight House is built, was suggested last night at a poorly-attended meeting of the Student Council. The group was prevented from taking effective action on most of the items on its agenda by the lack of a quorum for a good part of the meeting...
...from any one class, and meets at least ten times a year. Section eight of by-law ten provides that "The procedings of the Committee shall be secret and confidential." A majority vote is necessary for election, but only two votes are needed to reject a candidate. A quorum is seven members. In addition to the qualifications for membership, a candidate must be proposed by a Club member, and seconded by another. He must also be known to three members of the Admissions Committee, two of whom must be present when his name is considered...
...Quorum. Kadar flatly rejected, one by one, virtually every demand the workers' councils had made upon his government. He refused to bring former Premier Imre Nagy back into the government. He could not see his way clear to allowing the establishment of more political parties "under prevailing circumstances." (His own Communist Party, under a new name, the Socialist Workers, had been unable to muster a quorum at some meetings, and in the Csepel metalworks, once known as "Red Csepel," the party has so far enrolled only 360 out of 38,000 workers...
...situation range all the way from the ridiculous to the fundamental. Some lowans are against Hoegh because a bumptious, publicity-seeking television performer named Dagmar once bulged through his outer office, bussed the governor and then loped on up to the legislature, where she darned near kissed a quorum. Others are against him on the basic issue that he has raised taxes. Some farmers oppose him because they do not like the Eisenhower Administration's farm program; some Republicans are displeased because of his feelings toward Secretary Benson. And some of the plain, quiet, steady people of Iowa...
Angry Liberals, bent on keeping Winner Ponce out of office, staged an uprising in Manabi province, and Liberal Deputies tried to organize a no-quorum strike to prevent Congress from declaring him President-elect. Both attempts failed. Out going President Jose Maria Velasco Ibarra, most of the armed-forces brass and an apparent majority of run-of-the-plaza Ecuadorians wanted to see Ponce take office for the sake of constitutional order...