Word: quorums
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...next day, when Mossadeq showed up at the lower house prepared to demand the Deputies' support as well, there was only a small audience. Mossadeq waited for over two hours, but no quorum showed up. Growing chaos in the oilfields (where mobs were looting buildings and machinery) and the nation's headlong rush to bankruptcy had sobered more & more members of Parliament: they were showing their worry over Mossadeq's policies by staying away from the session...
...give emphasis to his invitation, his National Front bully boys poured into the streets. One of their leaders yelled: "We have Senators and Deputies who oppose Mossadeq. We have plenty of tahmassebis [assassins] who will settle their accounts." But at the next session, Mossadeq again failed to get a quorum, roared he would go ahead with his ultimatum anyway. To a U.S. correspondent he once more made clear his feelings: "Oil nationalization," he said, "is Iran's version of the 'Boston Tea Party...
After the carefully organized spree, Mossadeq summoned the Majlis to endorse his policy of all-out nationalization -no strings. Mossadeq uttered a threat: unless a quorum assembled and voted him confidence, he would not be responsible for order. One by one the intimidated parliamentarians filed past the Speaker's desk to drop cards into one of two copper pots. All the 91 cards dropped were white, meaning yes; no one dropped a blue card meaning no. One brave member abstained...
...purpose or kinds of extra-curricular activity, the admissions process becomes a "highly individualized proposition," Gummere points out. This year a record number of personal interview reports were submitted, and each particular report must be evaluated in a different way. So big are today's problems that a quorum of the Committee on Admissions holds sessions almost daily from April through June...
...When it comes to appraising things like general seriousness of purpose or kinds of extra-curricular activity, the admissions process becomes a "highly individualized a proposition," Gummere points out. This year saw a record number of personal interview reports come in. So big are today's problems that a quorum of the Committee on Admissions holds session almost daily from April through June...