Word: gavelling
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Speaker Byrns appointed a committee of four to attend the funeral, banged his gavel for adjournment, went home to his suite at the Mayflower Hotel. Nine hours later the Grim Reaper paid another call, and lanky, bushy-browed, 66-year-old Joe Byrns lay dead of a cerebral hemorrhage, first Speaker in history to die while Congress was in session...
...Navy band struck up a muted tune in the Speaker's lobby. The House rose as a flag-draped coffin was rolled in, placed among the flowers piled high against the rostrum, opened. For half an hour Representatives, clerks, pages shuffled by it. Then Speaker Bankhead's gavel rapped again and tall, grey Chaplain James Shera Montgomery, in flowing cutaway, began a prayer. When it was over the rear door swung open and in marched the U. S. Senate, escorted by the House's testy Doorkeeper Joseph J. Sinnott. As Speaker Bankhead cracked his gavel summoning...
...gymnasium. Auctioneer George Howard Bean had sent engraved circulars to about 1,500 clients, announcing that each of the 400 items of Coolidgeana offered would be accompanied by a certificate of authenticity. Only 400 bidders showed up for the auction. Dampened, Auctioneer Bean clambered to his dais, banged a gavel, stuck out a brawny arm holding a letter franked by Mrs. Coolidge, yelled for bids. It went for $3. Followed a litter of glassware, vases, pitchers, jars, hot plates, which excited little interest. Then up came a famed old bookcase used by Calvin Coolidge at Amherst. "Who'll give...
...kept up a steady fight against the New Deal and all its works. Yet he plays national politics according to the rules, does not allow his public partisanship to interfere with his private friendship with Democratic leaders off the House floor. When "Bert" Snell cracks his gavel down next June, Republican conservatives can be sure of the same iron-fisted service he gave in the same post four years ago at Chicago...
...American Medical Association will meet in Kansas City next month. Some 7,000 U. S. doctors will attend that annual convention. But only 172 members, delegates for the 101,754 A. M. A. members, will have anything authoritative to say, and that only between the authoritative gavel hangings of the Speaker of the House of Delegates, 70-year-old Dr. Nathan Bristol Van Etten of The Bronx...