Word: quorums
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...same time the group overwhelmingly approved an amendment to the chapter Constitution providing that a quorum of at least 10 percent of the membership be present before business can take place...
...directors. They called a special stockholders' meeting for last week. Wall Street gossiped that Hughes tried to buy up the entire issue himself at bargain rates, thus cheaply increase his control to around 80%. When the stockholders' meeting was held, Hughes stayed away. Lacking a quorum, other stockholders adjourned. Hughes then demanded that six of the eleven directors resign, let him send in a new team, including a financial vice president. Told off again, he stayed away for the second meeting...
...that at least part of the representation on the Council should be effected by House elections. If the new proposals are adopted, nominations will be made from the floor at an open meeting in the Houses, under Council auspices, with 15 per cent of the House membership constituting a quorum...
...bare quorum on hand found little controversy in adopting into the constitution a paragraph pledging the council "to cooperate with student groups from other colleges on a national and international scale...
...hastily adjourned the session and rose to leave the room. "You can't do that!" cried Australia's Colonel William R. Hodgson. "You are a servant of this Commission." Kisselev kept going, was dutifully followed by the delegates from Russia, the Ukraine, Yugoslavia and Czechoslovakia. The Western quorum stayed to pass a vote of censure. This week Russia abandoned its attempt to give Bulgaria a slice of Greek Thrace...