Word: quorum
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Club. One repository of the sweet life was the Quorum Club, located in a three-room suite at the Carroll Arms Hotel, just across the street from the new Senate Office Building. Elly is remembered as a hostess there...
...other direction and passed scores of new statutes. Seven states enacted laws against "barratry" (inciting lawsuits) to harass civil rights organizations and their lawyers. When civil rights pickets gathered at the only movie house in Americus one Saturday last July, members of the city council rounded up a quorum, swiftly passed an ordinance declaring that henceforth picketing would be permitted only between 9 a.m. and 6 p.m., that there must be no more than two pickets per city block, and that the pickets must stay at least 20 feet apart and within 24 inches of the curb. Several demonstrators were...
Four of the five Committee members who favor an unconditional invitation to Wallace walked out of the Oct.5 meeting. As a result, the meeting lacked a quorum and the matter could not be brought up for re-discussion. According to Robert's Rules of Order, a matter which has been considered twice may not be brought up again - even in future meetings...
...Troubled No." Even before the quorum bells sounded for the final vote, ratification was a certainty. Georgia's Richard Russell, a treaty opponent, shrugged: "They had it all counted up." Despite the lack of suspense, the galleries were filled as photographers for the U.S. Capitol Historical Society recorded the moment-the first time picture-taking was authorized while the Senate was in session. All but two Senators had announced their views in advance, and the unknowns split, Nevada Democrat Howard Cannon voting "yea" and Maine Republican Margaret Chase Smith weighing in with what she later described as "a troubled...
...debate on the nuclear test ban treaty got under way with exactly eight members of the U.S. Senate on hand. Majority Leader Mike Mansfield, reasoning that more Senators should be present for the occasion, moved a quorum call. Still, few showed up, so Mansfield rescinded the call...