Word: gavelled
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...that Governor Roosevelt was guilty of bad faith. Al Smith vehemently declared: "A principle is at stake?the principle of keeping your word." James Farley, loud chief-of-staff of the Roosevelt forces, boomed out "pooh-poohs," claimed he had the majority necessary to elect Senator Walsh. A friendly gavel would greatly help the Roosevelt candidacy...
Senator Lester Jesse Dickinson of Iowa, temporary chairman of the Republican National Convention, whammed with his gavel to quiet the vast babble that was filling the flag-hung Chicago Stadium. He had "keynoted" the convention the day before in loud, oldtime partisan style (TIME, June 20). Now in order were several more perfunctory pieces of business before the main (and equally perfunctory) acts of the meeting could be performed...
...Senator Dickinson presented to the convention its permanent chairman, Representative Bertrand Hollis Snell, Potsdam, N. Y. cheesemaker. Chairman Snell, plump and pink, was escorted to the platform by a delegation of ladies headed by Mrs. Alvin Hert, vice-chairwoman of the National Committee. From the first bang of his gavel, for which was later substituted a bungstarter, it was apparent that stout Mr. Snell had the convention in his round red fist...
...Herbert Hoover, private citizen, was thoroughly interested, if not downright excited. Just before the opening gavel Presidential Rule No. 7 (TIME, November 24, 1930) was observed when White House Physician Joel Thompson Boone announced: "Our present national leadership is bearing a greater strain than ever was the portion of any other President. Thank God, our President is a physical rarity. In spite of the incomparable burdens he is bearing. President Hoover is in excellent health...
...presence of Republican Senators and Representatives at the Chicago meeting. A few, because they were big cogs, were obliged to be on hand. Others might play hooky from the Capitol. Thus Senator Simeon Davison Fess of Ohio had to attend as chairman of the Republican National Committee and gavel the assembly to order at 10 a. m. the first morning. Then he would turn the presiding office over to Senator Lester Jesse Dickinson of Iowa who as temporary chairman would sound the party's keynote. Next chunky, heavy-jowled Congressman Bertrand Hollis Snell of New York would step forward...