Word: quorums
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...lame-duck 81st Congress lingered on, dying slowly but not gracefully. Members were in a vagrant holiday mood; by midweek so many had left Washington that the leaders were barely able to call up a quorum. As matters stood before the Christmas recess, the 81st would not be able to adjourn until the day before the 82nd Congress convened...
...business stopped. Bells jangled and clerks scoured the Hill. It was almost three hours before a bare quorum could be collected out of homes, department stores, restaurants and offices (many came loaded down with Christmas packages). By that time, House leaders thought better of making an issue of it, decided to put the whole matter over until after Christmas...
...another development at yesterday's meeting, the Faculty voted to abolish the system of "selected members," which has been in force for few years to insure a quorum at meetings. Instead the Faculty voted that the following members should ordinarily go to all meetings...
...Yugoslavia, India and Egypt withdrew from the sessions, thus preventing a quorum...
...same time, Henry M. Silviera, Jr. '51, Student Council president, said that a meeting of Housemasters which was to have taken up the parietal rules question today has been postponed due to lack of a quorum. That meeting was called to consider a measure sponsored by the chairmen of the House committees which would extend the deadline to 12 midnight on the Dartmouth and Yale weekends only...