Word: quorum
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Stephen P. Roose '70 and David L. Kirp, instructor in Economics and an opposition candidate, have launched an investigation into the membership figures the Coop used to define the quorum. Roose plans to obtain today the membership list used from John G. Morrill, Coop General Manager...
...challengers will first compare official enrollment and membership figures and then will re-compare the required quorum attendance (five per cent of voting members...
Brown said that an error of at least 10,000 would be necessary to raise a question about the absence of a quorum. The income from membership is large enough to indicate that such an error has probably not been made, he added...
...Senate, however, wily Minor ity Leader Everett Dirksen reversed the procedure by stationing a page outside the doors to send Republicans away. Lacking a quorum of 51 the Senate was stymied, and Majority Leader Mike Mansfield finally signaled defeat 1 TV debates...
...Republicans held a sit-out in the Senate. When House Republicans conducted a 27-hour filibuster by insisting on time-consuming roll calls (45 of them, each requiring roughly 30 minutes), Speaker John McCormack finally locked the doors for the first time since 1917. With a captive quorum, Democrats were able to ram the measure through...