Word: gaveled
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...president rapped his gavel and called the meeting to order. He explained that there had been a pretty good Dean's Luncheon, for those who had lunched with the Deans, and that there would be no minutes, for the previous meeting had been too long for the secretary to summarize in a week...
...convention entertainment director, singers of all shapes and sizes appeared to entertain the delegates. At the drop of a G.O.P. hero's name, sign-toting Young Republicans in varsity sweaters snake-danced down Cow Palace aisles like half time at College Stadium. At the rap of a gavel from Permanent Chairman Joe Martin, the demonstrators vanished like so many genii...
...impact on the convention was emphasized from the start, when Paul Butler surprised everybody by banging the gavel on time. And in a sense, TV itself could be blamed for much of the tedium. Almost every speaker, painfully conscious of the camera's eye, addressed himself to "you who are watching TV." The galluses, the sweat, the unguarded gestures, the open shirts and bold-patterned ties were gone for good...
...Madison Square Garden (Alabama-"24 votes for Oscahhh W. Undahhhwood") that finally nominated John W. Davis to run against Cal Coolidge (and Charles G. Dawes). At that convention the governor of Colorado was trampled in a melee, and the convention chairman banged so hard for order that his gavel flew apart, its head striking Delegate Herman Schoernstein squarely between the eyes...
...three big networks this week are mobilizing some staggering forces and equipment for their 70-hour gavel-to-gavel coverage of the two political conventions. If 1956 fails to provide the best political show yet, it will certainly offer the biggest. Items...