Word: quorums
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Lack of Quorum...
...church's nine vestrymen had met previously and voted Melish out-because of his liberal policies. Melish, who is assistant rector, condemned the vote as illegal because of the lack of a quorum. He then appealed to Bishop DeWolfe. His argument was disregarded and the substitute appointed...
Soon after World War II began, the backroom boys of Phenix City were counting their tainted blessings at the rate of $100 million a year; they had a good thing, and they meant to keep it. When church groups organized against them, the bosses simply bought themselves a quorum of elders. When good citizens tried to fight them at the polls, the bosses bought votes at $10 a head and put in a puppet government. Members of cleanup committees were subjected to a campaign of nuisance arrests and tire slashings. Two were badly beaten up, on a downtown street...
...hang around the common room looking for votes. For pool shooters, they have provided detailed photographs of almost every public table in the University. Every party, every dance, must have been dutifully attended by a Yearbook photographer. And each of the eight House committees managed to summon a quorum and look properly awake for its constituents. But for the nonpool player who learned years ago that college students drink, attend parties, and politick, 319 has very little to offer...
...last big constitutional barrier to one-party racial control over his divided land. He had already packed South Africa's High Court bench, by adding five new judges favorable to the government; now he pressed through Parliament a bill endorsing his court-packing decree, and ensuring that a quorum of the new court would be able to override the South African constitution...