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...smitten the grand jury and prosecutor in an investigation of alleged corruption attendant upon the famed Julian Petroleum case. Defense : the grand jury and district attorney are not The Court. Snorted Publisher Henry Birdice Richmond Briggs: "Next time, like enough, they will pretend that the bailiff who pounds the gavel and the scrubwoman who cleans out the judicial cuspidor is (sic) sacrosanct...
...joke. California's Senator Johnson rattled off a speech against confirmation at such high speed that the galleries heard only a blur of sound. Idaho's Sena- tor Borah was in the middle of a long, involved sentence when he was cut short by the Vice President's gavel calling for the vote. Result...
...Hopkins administration, asking its continuance. They saw round-faced Mr. Hopkins sitting back in his chair, eyeing with a great show of indifference the 61 amber bulbs in the Moorish chandelier. They saw 25 councilmen, impatient at the droning, presided over by Mayor John D. Marshall, fingering his gavel, munching peanuts...
...speaker: Charles Curtis, President of the Senate, Vice President of the U. S. The occasion: the Christmas dinner the Vice President traditionally gives Senate pages. For his hospitality, they presented him, as a Kaw Indian, with a beribboned tomahawk instead of the usual gavel. As a onetime jockey who still steals off to the races, Vice President Curtis grinned roundly when one page recited "How Salvator...
When Speaker Longworth resumed his chair, there was no roll call on H. J. Res. 133, only a rising vote. With his gavel handle the Speaker went through the motions of counting while a sharp-eyed clerk took the actual tally, whispered the result up to him for announcements: 282 to 17. Tax reduction had been approved by the House four days after its introduction-a new record...