Word: quorums
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...hastily adjourned the session and rose to leave the room. "You can't do that!" cried Australia's Colonel William R. Hodgson. "You are a servant of this Commission." Kisselev kept going, was dutifully followed by the delegates from Russia, the Ukraine, Yugoslavia and Czechoslovakia. The Western quorum stayed to pass a vote of censure. This week Russia abandoned its attempt to give Bulgaria a slice of Greek Thrace...
...Wasted one afternoon in filibuster and six quorum calls to prevent the FEPC bill from coming to the floor...
...presiding officer's desk, signed his mail. The Senate restaurant was kept open; the jammed galleries tittered and yawned; all but half a dozen Senators creaked out to nap in the cloakrooms. At 7:30 p.m. they were summoned back to the floor by a Langer quorum call. They found the sagging North Dakotan chewing the mangled end of a cellophane-wrapped cigar...
...trouble getting a quorum for the British loan debate, sent out the sergeant at arms to round up absent members...
Though Prexy T. L. P. O'Donnell '47 tried every secret hand-shake and pass-word he knew, including "General Education," the sentinel was adamant. As a last resort, when the Council failed to turn up with a quorum, it was suggested that several society members be hastily appointed to the group, in exchange for use of the room. But they met on the third floor...