Word: quorums
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...words . . ."). But Christian Pineau never got to the rostrum. The State Department had neglected to tell the secretary of the Senate that he was coming; there were only twelve Senators on the floor, and it was too near lunch time to round up a quorum. Apologetically Walter George hustled Pineau off to lunch with Senate leaders and several members of the Foreign Relations Committee...
Controlled Glee. Southern Democrats are stony-faced before these rattlings from the North. In Washington, Southern Congressmen, fighting to keep the House Judiciary Committee from voting out the Administration's civil-rights bill, forced the committee to break up four times in a single day to answer quorum calls in the House itself. Next day, by meeting before the House was in session, a coalition of Republicans and Northern Democrats succeeded in pushing through approval of the bill and passing it on to the Rules Committee (whose Southern members are likely to succeed in holding up action...
George P. Leyland '59 said the Society had committed nine violations of its constitution and of "general practice." His main criticism stemmed from the fact that the HSMR's recent election meeting was held without a proper quorum...
Although this petition directly affects only the HSMR, it pointed up a situation under which many other clubs operate--that is, business meetings are often held without quorums. Thus, any irate members of the group could ask the Council to throw out the business approved at such a meeting--elections for example--if a quorum was lacking...
...three agreed that the club should hold another election in which a full quorum would be present. Eighteen of the club's members constitute a quorum. Perlstein and Williams, in the event he should be elected to office, agreed to "follow the constitution" in future actions of the club...