Word: quorums
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Faculty of Arts and Sciences, the body to which is entrusted the guidance of educational policy in the College but which often cannot muster a quorum at its meetings, will henceforth have at least an "insured quorum" at every session...
Under the complicated terms of the new "rules relating to organization and procedure," the Faculty will annually elect one-fifth of its membership of approximately 330 men to serve as a permanent quorum with "a special obligation to attend all meetings, regular and special...
Euthanasia. The work was easy; and lightly done, for while working in the Committee of the Whole only 100 members are needed for a quorum. This left the remaining 335 free to take naps, drink mineral water, tell each other lies, go to the ball game. On the seventh day of debate the House anesthetized it by sending it back to a committee pigeonhole. Republicans were content: now they can campaign this year in the country on the basis that the nasty old Democrats have refused to amend the inequities in the law. New Dealers were content: they admit only...
...committee had worked fast so that, if the Faculty approved, 25 members of the class of 1943 could start out concentrating in the new experimental field next fall. But the last three Faculty meetings have been attended by a mere handful of loyal souls, far too few for a quorum. As a result the report has not been voted on, and now that the Faculty has adjourned for a month, it seems certain that not until the fall of 1941 can the plan go into effect...
...today. At its first meeting, in the 2½-story Royal Exchange, at the foot of Manhattan's Broad Street, Feb. 1, 1790, only Chief Justice John Jay and two Associates turned up. Next day two more of the six Justices arrived from Virginia, making a quorum. In its first two years only one case came before the Supreme Court, was quickly dismissed because of an error in the writ. John Jay found plenty of time to go to England, negotiate his ill-famed treaty. His brethren spent their days cursing because they had to ride circuit. Nobody dreamed...