Word: gavelled
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...first reaction to the President's Budget for the fiscal year 1941-42 came as a reading clerk in the House of Representatives droned: ". . . will cost about 17.5 billions of dollars." A Congressman whistled. Speaker Sam Rayburn pounded his gavel. The clerk droned...
...Senate made the transition from old to new with little more ceremony than the thump-thump of Vice President John Garner's ivory gavel. It had met in the morning to establish a record of 367 days in session, recessed for 15 minutes, then flowed augustly on. As Garner, stammering occasionally and looking lonely and uncomfortable in his striped trousers and cutaway coat, put the Senate through its routine opening paces, the atmosphere was staid and grave. Senators elected and re-elected in November filed up to the rostrum in groups of four to be sworn in, each escorted...
...Scotsman's burr. Sidney Hillman seconded Murray's nomination, for Murray's election was the brightest hope for harmony in C. I. 0. When Murray won, Lewis shook his hand far more cordially than he had shaken Hillman's, gave him an ivory gavel, "symbol" of C. I. 0. leadership...
When the broad-shouldered, brooding labor leader took the gavel the galleries roared,"We want Lewis!"Banners were unfurled, confetti and paper streamers poured down, a band played The Stars and Stripes Forever, 100 delegates paraded. Through the 40-minute ovation John Lewis stood watching impassively. He too was being drafted for a third term; in his case, too, the demonstration of organized enthusiasm was overwhelming. When it was over there were tears in John Lewis' eyes as he said, "I am going to leave you now. I have done my work...
Pomp attended to, the Episcopalians got to business. The 130-odd members of the House of Bishops sat themselves down at workmanlike desks in the Auditorium's Little Theatre under the easygoing gavel of Bishop Tucker. (He asked his fellow prelates not to smoke during regular sessions: "I am not a fanatic against smoking but it does seem to me not altogether dignified.") The 500 clerical and lay delegates of the House of Deputies, under their president the Rev. ZeBarney Thorne Phillips of Washington (chaplain of the U. S. Senate), were more noisy, more informal...