Word: quorum
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...restriction might have prevented political opportunism, but it also would have eliminated many dedicated, able, and talented candidates. A constitutional limitation was hardly the proper remedy. As soon as the Hornblow petiton was defeated, Phillips sensed the next move--a censure. He adjourned the meeting for lack of a quorum (having asked some of his supporters to leave...
After the deciding vote on the resolution, debate resumed. Michael Hornblow '62, sponsor of the motion, asked for a recess to regroup his forces. When the meeting re-opened, a quorum was called since much of the large crowd had left. The first count was 19, the minimum needed to do business. Phillips asked for another call, however, and when only 18 members answered he declared the meeting adjourned...
...relatively calm debate over the resolution turned into chaos, when attendance proved one short of the 34 members required for a quorum. At one point, supporters of the resolution desperately asked the CRIMSON reporter on the scene to join the HYDC...
...majority of undergraduates--including several Council members--just don't know what to make of the organization. The image of meaningless dictums, quorum-less meetings, and scandalized or uncontested elections still plagues the "new" Council...
...Hughes do, since Breech and Olds had stock control of TWA? When Breech and Olds got to the meeting, they found out. Tipped off by Hughesmen, most of Hughes's directors did not show up at the meeting. An embarrassed Breech and Olds could not even get a quorum, therefore could not get Breech elected to the board. Since the bylaws state that only the directors or a special stockholders' meeting can elect new directors, the two men who control TWA were forced to call a stockholders' meeting to approve their plans. That will not take place...