Word: quorums
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...costly Allis Chalmers strike in 1941. Christoffel had been given a two-to six-year prison sentence for falsely telling the House Education and Labor Committee that he was not a Communist. The Supreme Court, split 5 to 4, rescued Christoffel with a startling technicality: a quorum of the committee was not on hand when he told his lies; therefore, though he lied under oath, he had not lied before a competent tribunal...
Justice Robert H. Jackson could hardly contain himself in his dissent from Justice Frank Murphy's majority opinion. The court was trying to change Congress' own rules, he said. For more than 150 years it has been standard congressional practice to presume a quorum until someone specifically raised the question and proved otherwise (as no one did in the Christoffel case). Murphy's decision, said Jackson, challenged the validity of thousands of congressional bills which have been passed without a record vote-hence without actual proof that a quorum was on hand...
Yesterday's open meeting of the Radcliffe Student Council, called to revise voting methods at the Annex, failed to draw enough members to meet the necessary quorum. The entire issue has been postponed, therefore, until the regular Council session at 4 p.m. Monday in Longfellow...
Lack of a quorum at yesterday's Radcliffe junior class meeting postponed the fate of the Class of 1950's Yearbook until another meeting at 1:10 p.m. Tuesday in Agassiz Theater...
...House achieved a quorum after last Thursday's failure...