Word: gaveled
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...make sure of passage the second time, Sam Rayburn turned his gavel over to New Jersey's Edward Hart and made one of his rare speeches from the well of the chamber. The House passed the bill by 185 to 160, sent it to the White House. Harry Truman signed the next day, to make certain that the new personal-income-tax provisions will go into effect...
...found their places at a long table. Other Senators, admitted by a last-minute vote which opened the hearings to all members of the upper house, lined the sides of the room. In the center, at a table facing the committeemen, Douglas MacArthur took his seat. A gavel pounded furiously for order, vainly at first, finally with success; police cleared the room. The great wooden doors of Room 318 swung shut. In the crowded hearing room, the curtain went up on the most dramatic hearing in congressional history...
...high-ceilinged amphitheater on London's Mincing Lane last week, veteran Auctioneer A. B. Yuille stepped up to the rostrum and pounded his gavel. He was offering for sale 18 chests of tea from Ceylon. From among the 400 brokers came cries of "Far! Far! Far!" as the bids rose a farthing at a time. Finally, at five shillings one farthing a Ib. (about 70?), the first lot went to George White & Co. In 3½ hours Auctioneer Yuille sold 11,524 chests containing 1,250,000 Ibs. of tea. For the first time since 1939, London...
...gavel banged, and Dorgan started reading a book on America written by a priest. When a committee member suggested that present sedition laws were more effective than 11. 426, Dorgan waited with exaggerated patience and then, at the same point where he left off and in the same tone of voice, began reading anew...
Picking up steam, he whisked over to Capitol Hill to present Alben Barkley with a gavel turned from wood used in the 1817 reconstruction of the White House. It was Barkley's 38th anniversary in Congress, and both the President and the Veep were in fine fettle. Since he had never quite made the White House, quipped Barkley, "the President has brought a piece of the White House to me." The Senate roared, and Harry Truman cracked back: "I'm in pretty good health yet." Then the President shook hands all around, not overlooking such of his current...