Word: gavelling
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...tune with the Constitution the bang of Vice President Curtis' gavel ended the session. It and Speaker Longworth's gavel-bang at the other end of the Capitol also ended the Congressional careers of 15 Senators and 78 Representatives who were either defeated in the November elections or voluntarily retired. It ended Big Business' fear of a special session. It ended legislative hopes embodied in some 23,000 measures that did not pass. But, most newsworthy, it ended a one-man filibuster that had tied the Senate into a knot of impotence all that morning...
...Vice President Charles Curtis gave a Christmas dinner last week to the 19 Senate pages (age 12 to 16) in the Capitol restaurant.* Likewise as custom requires, the pages gave the Vice President a Christmas present. Page Philip J. ("Peewee") Bassford passed to Vice President Curtis an enormous wooden gavel with the statement: "We have christened this gavel 'Discipline' and it is guaranteed to mash 'em flat...
...friends. Mr. Davis' right to his seat had been challenged by Senator Nye's committee for investigating excessive campaign expenditures. He refused to join the Senate until cleared. Mr. Morrow's credentials were late in arriving from New Jersey. The Vice President rapped smartly with his gavel; Chaplain ZeBarney Phillips began to pray: "May passion for the Commonwealth consume all dross of unworthy ambition...
...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...