Word: quorums
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Clerk of the House, Tyler Page, called the session to order. A roll call showed that a quorum was present. They proceeded to the election of speaker. There were three candidates: Nicholas Longworth of Ohio (Republican); Ferris J. Garrett of Tennessee (Democrat) ; Henry Allen Cooper of Wisconsin (Republican Insurgent). At once the insurgents indicated that they had not repented of their ways during the summer. But the regular Republicans also demonstrated that they had a majority. The vote stood Longworth 299, Garrett 173, Cooper 13. Congressman Garrett escorted Speaker Longworth to the chair and exclaimed...
Bishop Charles W. Nibley, multimillionaire, the wealthiest Mormon in the world. It had been anticipated that Rudger Clawson, President of the Quorum of the Twelve Apostles, might be made Counsellor. In that event, Reed Smoot, ranking Apostle, would have been made President of the Quorum, would thus have been in direct line to the succession as President of the Mormon Church. But the spiritual duties of being President of the Quorum of the Twelve Apostles would have required Apostle Smoot to give up the time which he now devotes to being senior U. S. Senator from Utah...
...Curtis got the floor. He moved to adjourn sine die. Senator Trammell demanded a 'quorum. Mr. Curtis said a quorum was not necessary. Senator Bingham, who was in the chair, put the motion. There was a loud chorus...
...reclined, there came a telephone message to say that the Senate had sent out a call for a quorum. Mr. Dawes donned his clothes, went downstairs. He summoned a taxicab. The taxi was delayed in a traffic jam. It took eight minutes to reach the Capitol...
...Representative Thomas Lindsay Blanton of Texas, wordy Congressman from Abilene, sometimes spoken of as the "most troublesome man in the House." He had the record, in the last Congress, for making points of no quorum (forcing roll calls, which in the House, with 435 members, take nearly ha f an hour each). In all, the House had 309 calls-ISO hours of legislative time...