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...news brought a howl of indignation from the rest of the Senate. Minor treaties are frequently waved through without bothering to call for a quorum or recording the vote, but never had such an important treaty slipped by with so little notice. Hastily, the Senate asked the President to return the treaty "for reconsideration." This time, the quorum bells would be sounded, the roll formally called, and the approval of Greece and Turkey in NATO recorded with proper ceremony...
...trained as a gangster's accomplice, attaches itself to Farley and Shelley, who are unaware that the animal is being hunted by a quorum of the local rogues' gallery (Francis L. Sullivan, Lon Chancy, Glenn Anders et a/.). Luckily required to speak none of the film's dialogue, the dog charms Shelley into locking Farley out of the boudoir. Whenever Farley tries to get rid of this dog in the manger by answering a newspaper ad inserted by one of the rival crooks, Farley finds the claimant murdered-and the police (William Demarest et a/.) leaping...
...Cliffe '55 will hold its first meeting at 4 p.m. today in the Agassiz Living Room. If a quorum is present, the class will vote to pass its newly drawn-up constitution...
...next day, when Mossadeq showed up at the lower house prepared to demand the Deputies' support as well, there was only a small audience. Mossadeq waited for over two hours, but no quorum showed up. Growing chaos in the oilfields (where mobs were looting buildings and machinery) and the nation's headlong rush to bankruptcy had sobered more & more members of Parliament: they were showing their worry over Mossadeq's policies by staying away from the session...
...give emphasis to his invitation, his National Front bully boys poured into the streets. One of their leaders yelled: "We have Senators and Deputies who oppose Mossadeq. We have plenty of tahmassebis [assassins] who will settle their accounts." But at the next session, Mossadeq again failed to get a quorum, roared he would go ahead with his ultimatum anyway. To a U.S. correspondent he once more made clear his feelings: "Oil nationalization," he said, "is Iran's version of the 'Boston Tea Party...