Word: gaveled
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Promptly at noon White got the meeting under way. The crowd was noisy and restless. Stockholders stood by their seats, clamoring for recognition, or wandered aimlessly around the room. White stuck to his agenda, but soon his chairman's gavel was drowned out by the hubbub. Finally, he got through the nomination of the two opposing slates for the 15-man board of directors. He announced that the voting would include two resolutions sponsored by Mrs. Wilma Soss, the vocal president of the Federation of Women Shareholders and the holder of ten shares (plus about 1,000 proxies). Then...
...hard that electricians installed a special guard to keep his mouth at least two inches away. At first, while points of order mounted to disorder, he seemed to be waiting for the judge to stop the nonsense, not realizing that he could prompt Chairman Mundt to bang the gavel...
When victory came, on a vote of 241 to 158, Speaker Joe Martin handed his gavel to Dondero and said: "Here. After 20 years, you deserve it." Later, old (70) George Dondero happily said, "At that moment, I was up in the clouds...
...rose-draped hall in Manhattan's Roosevelt Hotel, 69 mortgages went under the auctioneer's gavel at the newly formed New York Mortgagee Exchange. Fromkes had expected sales of second mortgages to predominate, but almost two-thirds of the sales were first mortgages. More than 1,400 buyers and spectators jammed the room, and, all told, mortgages with a face value of $964,200 were sold for $821,045. Banks that felt overloaded with mortgages and private holders who wanted to thaw out assets were glad to sell at discounts (but did better than by private sale...
With the presentation of a souvenir gavel to its president this week, the Student Council officially closed its past year. The year has not been a failure; it has been far from an unqualified success. As always, the Council has some achievements to recall with satisfaction. In the coming year, however, it is even more important that the new Council remember the mistakes of the past year. For 1953 was a significant year with attacks on universities, Harvard in particular, imposing increased responsibilities on the Council. To the members' credit, they recognized these responsibilities. But in meeting the problems...