Word: quorums
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Complete returns for the Council nominations fro two more Houses and the Union left Eliot, which failed to get a quorum Thursday night, the only House without final House nominations...
...Houses, the Union, and Dudley opened the race for the 1949 -1950 Student Council by picking candidates at last night's nomination meetings. Of the Houses, only Eliot failed to gain a quorum, and will try again on Wednesday...
...Wherry resolution drastically changed the rules on filibusters. Formerly they could be shut off during debate on a measure by a simple two-thirds majority (as few as 33 members) of a quorum. Under the Wherry rule, cloture could be applied at any stage of a debate, but only by a two-thirds majority (64) of the whole Senate. Cloture could not be invoked at all on a change in rules, which left the way open for an unstoppable filibuster if anyone tried again to change them. The new rule would be a weak weapon against any but a very...
...confidence, the President said that he thought the proposed cloture rule should be even more drastic than the one Russell Long & Co. were talking down. He said he would favor applying cloture by a simple majority vote. Under such a rule, 25 Senators (a simple majority of a functioning quorum of 49) would be able to end a Senate debate...
...reduced quorum of Liberal Union members voted last night to give a legal staff full power of attorney to begin action in the current HLU Film Series dispute with the University Theater and its distributors. Before the business meeting, J. William Belanger, Massachusetts CIO president, and John T. Dunlop, associate professor of Economics, discussed the Taft-Hartley...