Word: quorums
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...possibility also arose that Winans would try to enlist enough Council support so that if he is denied permission to speak tonight, at least seven members will walk out of the meeting, leaving Leland without a quorum...
...civil-rights delegation to Congress. Only last week did Smith hold his first hearings on the bill, and monopolized the time by questioning New York's Democratic Representative Leo O'Brien, a backer of Alaskan statehood, until the meeting was broken up by a House quorum call. Cunning old Chairman Smith benignly called another meeting for that afternoon-knowing full well that most committee members would be tied up with business on the House floor, e.g., appropriations for the Health, Education and Welfare Department. He waited around for an hour, owlishly recessed the hearing when no quorum showed...
...Council also hopes, Abrams said, to effect "some sort of all-college unifying attitude," so the Council might "create the feeling that we are needed." In reference to the 1957 Council's frequent inability to gather a quorum, Leland felt that the new Council "would not need encouragement to attend meetings. They all ran for election...
...unsatisfactory experience of arriving for a council meeting at seven o'clock--the time for which they are called--and having to wait anywhere from an hour to an hour and a half for the meeting to commence. Sometimes the wait will be a full week, since often a quorum cannot be mustered...
Senaga promptly took advantage of an assembly bylaw that requires a two-thirds quorum for a no-confidence vote. Every time the opposition majority tried to vote him out, Senaga's twelve assemblymen simply walked out of the meeting. When the opposition tried physically to prevent Senaga's men from leaving, they took to the windows; one Senaga assemblyman once left his trousers behind in the tight clutch of an anti-Senaga assemblyman who had tried to stop...