Word: quorums
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...Long." He is keeping his word--and the fire he is raising has all America in a hot spot. "The Man," as the Senator fondly refers to himself, typifies the pro-poll tax bloc. Saturday, their filibuster technique led them into hiding from the Senate to prevent a necessary quorum. That this absurd burlesque of American government was soon righted with a warrant for their arrest in no way diminishes the Axis delight and Allied dismay it must have inspired. The United States, home of democracy, fighting a war in which democracy struggles to survive, can't function because...
...night-when he is not busy plotting the next day's action-Rommel often turns teacher, assembles a quorum of tank officers, lectures them on the beauties of Naziism, the art of getting things done in wartime. Correspondent Harold Denny, who was captured by Rommel's forces last year, reported on his release that Rommel liked to lecture captured British officers on the fallacies of their tactics...
...night-when he is not busy plotting the next day's action-Rommel often turns teacher, assembles a quorum of tank officers, lectures them on the beauties of Naziism, the art of getting things done in wartime. Correspondent Harold Denny, who was captured by Rommel's forces last year, reported on his release that Rommel liked to lecture captured British officers on the fallacies of their tactics...
...maneuver failed. Governor Talmadge challenged the regents' action on the ground that they lacked a quorum, vowed that the dismissed educators would never come back. Last week, despite a penitent appeal by the regents, the Southern Association of Colleges & Secondary Schools, official accrediting agency, decided to blacklist ten colleges in Georgia's University System...
Last week, in a night session, the nine Coalitionist Senators walked out, left Popular Democratic Party Senators without a quorum. Muñoz Marin staggered from his sickbed to the Senate chamber. Doors and windows were closed to protect him from pneumonia. The crowded galleries set up a cheer. Muñoz Marin could not take the chair, sat wearing an overcoat and muffler, stifling his coughing in a handkerchief. The hall grew silent. With great difficulty, an expression of profound sadness on his features, he began: "Nothing, nothing, nothing can paralyze the Populares' task. I will be here...