Word: gavelling
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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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...
...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...
Mayor-Well, they're not so bad. Did you ever listen to any of them? (Laughter, gavel...
Under the auctioneer's gavel last week went famed 101 Ranch, bringing sorrow to the hearts of many a cowboy, cowgirl, Indian chief & squaw, including onetime Cowboys Will Rogers & Tom Mix, but mostly to the heart of Col. Zachary Taylor Miller, owner, who lay abed ill with a shotgun standing in the corner...