Word: quorums
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Memoirs & Habits. Of some 1,000 living ex-Congressmen, a quorum is engaged, in Washington and in their home states, in the practice of law. Former Senator Joseph O'Mahoney represents Owen Lattimore, among other clients. Millard Tydings has a partnership with his father-in-law, onetime Ambassador Joseph Davies. Bennett Champ Clark and John Danaher, both former Senators, are judges of the U.S. Court of Appeals. One-third of the Supreme Court-Justices Hugo Black, Harold Burton and Sherman Minton-are former Senators...
...formalities in the Teheran mosque gave the government more than the quorum of Deputies needed to summon the Majlis into session-the first since it was dissolved by would-be Dictator Mossadegh in August 1953. Desperate to get Iran's major resource, oil, into world markets after 30 months of near-bankruptcy, Premier Zahedi let it be known that the parliament's first big assignment will be to ratify a new oil agreement with Western companies...
...That is what he was elected for. Once avoidable absence should be grounds for dismissal. This will keep members true to the promises they make in then maiden speeches about faithful participation in Council affairs. And it will eliminate the kind of meetings where, because of lack of a quorum, Council members can do little but sit in P.B.H. and balance their teacups and cookies...
...chamber was quiet: 243 members had just answered a quorum call, and Speaker Joe Martin was counting the ayes on a standing vote on a rule to provide two hours of debate on a bill regarding Mexican immigrants. In the gallery, the woman and her companions took back-row seats, observed the proceedings for a minute or two. Then all three whipped out German automatic pistols. The woman opened fire first, walking down the aisle to the front of the gallery, holding her pistol with both hands. "Puerto Rico is not free!" she screamed. The men opened fire a moment...
...into one of the most devastating political volcanoes that ever poured the lava of conflict and the ash of dismay over Washington. Joe, the stoker, was still disorganized but quick-witted, charging in and out of his Senate office, snatching up telephones, rushing to the Senate floor to answer quorum calls, dictating statements to reporters. As he dashed about, his office staff lost track, believed a rumor that he had emplaned for New York. Then Joe stomped in from the corridor, stuffed a briefcase, said "Come on" to a waiting reporter and hurried out. Behind them came a job seeker...