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...against the press, ordered InformaciÓn's Senate reporter to be booted from the press gallery. At this point the Senators decided they had had enough "conduct unbecoming a Senator," began clamoring for President Illas' resignation. After they refused to appear in numbers sufficient for a quorum. President Illas growled that he would resign. But when, to save face on both sides, his friends got 20 of the 36 Senators to give him a vote of confidence last week, in the earnest hope that he would resign forthwith, Arturo Illas triumphantly boomed that he would do nothing...
...Havana, Boss Batista met his Capitol lieutenants to hear details of how the lower house of Cuba's 16th Congress was staging a legislative "standup" strike in the corridors outside their chamber. For a full week they had refused to take their seats in number sufficient for a quorum. Unread on the lectern was the latest message which Dictator Batista had authorized his hand-picked President Federico Laredo Bru to read...
...soon as the Colonel's lieutenants shuttled back from Camp Columbia to the Capitol, the stand-up was over. Back into the chamber filed 111 of the lower house's 162 members, just enough for a quorum but not enough to let Boss Batista forget that they were aggrieved. What they then heard from President Laredo Bru would have burned the ears of any U. S. Congress...
...reading clerk rattled through it like a train announcer, skipping paragraphs and whole sections, flipping three or four pages at a time. Primed to offer an amendment, Wisconsin's Progressive Harry Sauthoff discovered that the clerk had passed his section, had to raise a point of no quorum three times and finally threaten to demand a careful reading of the whole bill before Democratic leaders would consent to a re-reading of the section. On the quorum calls the presiding officer, North Carolina's Lindsay Warren, glanced at the 40-odd members present, announced counts...
Once each year, in theory, the legal owners of a corporation assemble for an accounting of the stewardship of their property. In practice the annual stockholders' meeting is largely a matter of form. Only with the greatest difficulty can stockholders be persuaded to sign enough proxies for a quorum, let alone attend in person. The few stockholders who do attend can do little except talk, since the majority of the shares are generally voted, not by disinterested stockholder representatives, but by a management primarily interested in staying in office. Almost nothing short of scandal ever bestirs the absentee owners...