Word: quorums
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Other Fish to Fry. The usually philosophic Douglas shouted, "I object." Hot and rumpled, he paced the floor, demanded a quorum so that the question of whether his words had been objectionable could be put to a vote. Actually the matter was of little importance, but Douglas, angry at McKellar, insisted that his colleagues go through the whole rigmarole. Annoyed Senators, with other fish to fry, were herded complainingly out of offices and cloakroom and onto the floor. Morse slumped in his seat, grinning gleefully, while the still indignant Douglas had the record read. McKellar gave up, let the record...
Until Christmas? Just after midnight, Cain abruptly ended his speech and demanded a quorum call. His filibuster had lasted 12 hours and 8 minutes.* The sergeant-at-arms began routing out snoozing Senators and, when he could not find enough, was ordered to arrest a few-a temper-raising procedure which had not been invoked since 1942. But arrests proved unnecessary as, one by one, Senators straggled in, grinning sheepishly as their waiting colleagues applauded each latecomer. For an hour the Senators wrangled. Lucas wanted an agreement to vote on the bill itself; Wherry demanded a vote on a motion...
Chances for a revision of the membership clauses of the Student Council constitution died last night when the Council failed to round up a quorum to discuss the issue. Constitutional revision was originally scheduled for the Tuesday night meeting but was postponed because it was crowded out by other business...
...revision committee also proposed a change in the wording of the Council constitution's preamble which made it clear that the Council was in no way a student government. Discussion on the constitution ended without decision because of a lack of a quorum...
...whole system of Council nominations and elections has become absurdly complicated. In class elections less than half of the candidates picked by the nominating committees chose to run. For the House elections there were nomination meetings in every House, but only one of these managed to achieve a quorum, and that by means of a beer party. In all but one of the other Houses unchallenged minorities in insufficiently publicized meetings took charge of nominations...