Word: gavelling
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...House two days later another conclave of women began : the International Congress of Women of a Century of Progress. To preside over it came Lena Madesin Phillips, Manhattan lawyer, organizer and onetime president of the Federation of Business & Professional Women's Clubs. She opened the conference with the gavel used by Susan B. Anthony. To help settle the conference question, "How best can we serve our common cause-civilization?" came Jane Addams, Carrie Chapman Catt, Authoress Mary Ritter Beard, and many a foreign notable. From England came Dame Rachel Crowdy. only woman ever appointed a section head (Social Questions...
Bang, bang, bang went the gavel. To a raucous crowd of leather-skinned oil promoters, sharpers, frontier businessmen and Indian chiefs William Henry Murray, convention chairman, announced that, by a thumping majority, they had approved the constitution which was to make Oklahoma the 46th State* of the United States of America. Place: Guthrie, Okla. Time...
...presiding officer's gavel put an end to that wrangle. Further debate culminated in a vote on the pension bill. Meantime, the seeds of a new discussion had been planted in the minds of Senators Cutting and Glass. Just before adjournment was voted, the little Virginian rose once more...
Baldpated, urbane Judge Henry Warren Goddard rapped his gavel. The spectators filed out of the room talking and gesticulating. Banker Mitchell took his eyes off the dusty court clock, stood up. nodded to Lawyer Steuer. For five days the case was adjourned...
Next day the demonstrations became a big, grim picnic. Sandwiches, foraged from nearby restaurants, were passed around. From the county jail came coffee. Someone got hold of a gavel, used it to beat time for a song. Pinocle games started. Other groups squatted against the walls, swapped stories...