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...margin in the Senate. On New Year's Day 1935 the Democratic Lieutenant Governor, Robert Emmett Quinn, took matters in his own hands. As the Senate's presiding officer, he declared the election of two Republicans null & void, installed two Democrats in their places. To form a quorum he had State troopers force three other Republicans to remain in the chamber. Thus equipped with a Democratic majority, in 14½ minutes he whipped through a series of astounding reforms intended to break the Republicans' hold. At midnight, after a twelve-hour postponement, Governor Theodore Francis Green delivered...
...text of the resolution which was unanimously passed by a quorum of the Council at a special meeting last night in University Hall, reads...
...expected course when Craig, after hitchhiking to the school, turns it into a combined singing & dancing academy, with the aid of Mack Gordon and Harry Revel, who wrote the songs they play in the picture, Frances Langford, as a secretary who falls in love with Craig, and an enticing quorum of Paramount chorus girls. All this is pleasantly written and brightly played, but whether cinemaddicts will enjoy the picture will depend essentially on their feeling about Joe Penner...
...Kemp fought a defensive as well as a losing battle. He did not even attend the stockholders' meeting. His side contented itself with refusing to send in proxies in the hope that the meeting would fail to establish a quorum. After much last-minute proxy hunting, the Ivey-men established their quorum and the managerial casualties began. The victors sent the losers a resolution which, in effect, asked them please not to take the new elections to court, as the company had already done enough quarreling. "They must be afraid," commented Mr. Kemp, "otherwise they would not have passed...
...Warfare in the Virginia-Carolina Chemical Corp. (TIME, Oct. 21 et seq.), was renewed when supporters of ousted-President Alphonso Lynn Ivey tried to oust dictator-like Director George S. Kemp. At a special stockholders' meeting they failed to muster a quorum of 365,875 shares of common and both classes of preferred stock. They did have a quorum of the 7% prior preferred, but Vice President Gustavus Ober adjourned the meeting. Still displeased, the Ivey faction held a rump session, debated what to do next. Dictator Kemp held his saddle by a margin of 62,709 shares...