Word: quorums
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Student Council postponed its meeting last night because enough members could not be present to form a voting quorum. The cancellation was made "by mutual consent" because of hour examinations...
...sick and tired of witch hunts, of which the Smith Act prosecutions were the high point," burbled suety Philip M. ("Slim") Connelly, Los Angeles editor of the Communist People's World. Gathered around Connelly in a Los Angeles lawyer's office last week was a jubilant quorum of the 14 California Communist leaders in whose cases the U.S. Supreme Court had just ordered acquittal (for five), and new trials (for nine). Spokesman Connelly was giving out the new Red line that Communist martyrdom (including, said Manhattan's Daily Worker, those "sublimely heroic" atom spies, Julius and Ethel...
...doodler. Virginian Smith bottled civil rights in committee for two months until a majority forced it out. When the measure reached the House floor last week, "Judge" Smith took command of Southerners marshaling to defeat or disembowel it. The bill's backers steeled themselves for diatribe and delay, quorum calls and quixotic demands. But with gaunt, mild-looking Howard Smith calling the shots, they were never more wrong...
...event of an atomic attack, the Commerce Department fears that "corporate amnesia" may cripple many companies; casualties may be so great that the boards of most companies which require a quorum to make vital decisions would be unable to act or pick successors to those killed. Last week, complying with Commerce's new "continuity of management" program, Western Union asked stockholders to approve two simple changes in company bylaws. The changes: 1) remaining board members may elect new directors with "less than a quorum," and 2) surviving vice presidents may succeed the president in order of seniority. Other...
...group began to discuss the revision of undergraduate organiation rules, one member left to study for an hour exam, and destroyed the quorum...