Word: quorums
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...billion bill for the next 15 months. Summoned to testify before the Senate Foreign Relations Committee, Secretary of State Dean Acheson waited for ten minutes before Chairman Tom Connally showed up, then waited ten minutes more for enough other committeemen to make a quorum. Finally Connally snapped at an attendant: "Go out and see if you can find any more Senators wandering around, and bring them...
Members attending the special session opposed a quorum vote on the issue on the grounds that the final decision should be backed by a majority of the entire Council...
...should be. The fact is that the Council had no right to close the meeting, and thereby to withhold information from the student body. The Council constitution says that it "shall issue complete reports covering the business of all meetings" except "when two thirds of a quorum feel that publication of information concerning a subject will be detrimental to the best interests of the College as a whole." It is hard to see how it would have been "detrimental to the best interests of the College as a whole" if the student body had been given a clear idea...
...issues are: 1) ratification of the class constitution; 2) choice of a freshman play; and 3) whether to donate class contributions to a foreign aid organization such as CARE, an individual foster child, or a school abroad. Lack of a quorum at the meeting forced polling all members of the class individually...
After Sunday night's forum on the Marshall Plan, a quorum was assembled and the annual elections held. Paul L. Wright '49, of Enid, Oklahoma and Dudley was chosen Chairman, succeeding founder Stephen M. Schwebel '50, while Schwebel was shifted to the advisory post of President...