Word: gavelled
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...nomination process calls for an open assembly of House members two weeks prior to the elections, usually, but not necessarily, under the gavel of a council member. Names must be submitted from the floor and will be placed on petitions available in the dining halls for four days. Twenty signatures will place a candidate on the ballot, with no individual eligible to sign more than two petitions...
...Sage of the Age rapped his gavel. "The Association of Sayers will be Cummings to order. Alvarez all our associates...
...Vishinsky continued in Russian, Bidault banged his gavel; when that had no effect he rang the chairman's bell, which is used only to open and close sessions. Finally Vishinsky got the floor and said he had merely been attempting to withdraw a Russian objection. He added: "I am very sorry the President was disturbed, and particularly that he disturbed the august bell at his elbow...
...conference ended, Harold Laski, whose meddling speeches the past year have embarrassed the Labor Government, turned over the gavel as party chairman for next year to gaunt Philip Noel-Baker. "Others in the National Executive have looked upon me during this year with a combination of malevolence and charity unexampled in modern times," Laski joked. "Comrades, the skeleton now goes back to the cupboard...
Three days later, as Eric Johnston, 49, handed his gavel over to the Chamber's incoming new president, William Kenneth Jackson, 59, there was speculation on whether the Chamber wasn't also turning back to its old hidebound ways. In his four years as its head, Johnston had given the Chamber a patina of liberalism it had never had before. As its spokesman, he had probably made the most eloquent and effective exposition of the new social consciousness of many businessmen...