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Senators strolled wearily out to the cloakrooms, strolled back in again at the double clang of the quorum bell, while Missouri's tireless Republican Forrest Donnell droned through his exhaustive "introduction" to the bill to outlaw portal-to-portal pay suits, kept the floor for the better part of three days. Grumbled one Senator: "We ought to meet on Monday, Wednesday and Friday and let Donnell meet on Tuesday, Thursday and Saturday...
...House had a surface air of complacency; in fact, it could hardly muster a quorum. The reason was that most of its work-cutting Treasury funds by some $900 million, considering plans to improve the Panama Canal or admit Hawaii as a state-was being done in committee...
Meanwhile in the nomination meetings, Dunster House proved the most interested in the revised election procedure, turning out 143 members strong, well over the quorum mark...
Winthrop House assembled a 110-man quorum last night in the first of a College wide series of Student Council nomination meetings, and successfully put the new constitution's elective system to its first test...
Ratification of the new Student Council Constitution by a quorum of its members was announced last night by President Levin H. Campbell, 3rd '48, as the Council Elections Committee slated House nomination meetings for the first part of next week...