Word: gavelling
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Robert L. Green '39, captain of the 1938 football team, will wield the gavel at the meeting, which is being sponsored by the Harvard Refugee Committee. Other speakers scheduled are Dean Hanford, and Robert E. Lane '39, chairman of the Committee...
William Chambers '39, wielded the gavel at the overflow meeting...
...hour extension of the Fact-Finding Board's 30-day deliberation, reporters were called to the White House. There the board's chairman, Chief Justice Walter Parker Stacy of North Carolina, who has all the mannerisms of a country judge including scratching his head with his gavel (see cut), wearily announced that the board believed the wage cut unjustified...
...Senate, is in a mood for quick action, his methods are direct. Last week, as the clerk read each section of the Senate Finance Committee's 371-page, $5,000,000,000 1938 Tax Bill, Mr. Garner glanced down at Committee Chairman Pat Harrison, whacked his gavel on the desk, grunted: "Without objection, amendments agreed to. . . ." Five hours after the bill came up for debate Mr. Garner turned the chair over to Indiana's Minton, with a cheery comment: "We've passed 224 pages in 20 minutes-not bad." Two days later the bill that Congressional...
...originate legislation than the old board of aldermen, were a far fresher and more prepossessing crew than the aldermen they will replace. Council President Newbold Morris, a highly respectable Wall Street lawyer of 35 whose tie vote will belong to Mayor LaGuardia and Fusion, can look down over his gavel at two sturdy old revolutionaries. Russian-born Baruch Charney Vladeck, last week slated to be the council's minority leader, is now general manager of the Jewish Daily Forward and belongs to the new American Labor Party (TIME, Nov. 15), but three of his 51 years were spent...