Word: gavelling
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Theatre Union's Black Pit (TIME, April 1), the Group Theatre's Awake and Sing! (TIME, March 4) and its new double bill, he would probably have gone home with the bewildering conviction that the New York stage had traded the sock & buskin of entertainment for the gavel of Reform...
...side of business- which is part of his usefulness at a time when the Administration is trying to win the confidence of business. Because of his open taking of sides in the Recovery Board's debates, it was at one point suggested that he resign the gavel to the Board's Executive Secretary Leon Marshall-which he did. During the discussions of the recently adopted cigaret code he did not try to be impartial, simply withdrew from the meetings when the subject came...
When other amendments were proposed from the floor, Congressman O'Connor took the gavel from Speaker Byrns's trembling hand, declared some of them out of order, let his colleagues defeat the rest with roars of "No." Then 329 Representatives gave the President his $4,000,000,000 "without strings." Of the 78 Representatives who voted "No" ten were Democrats including "Goober" Cox and four other Georgians, "Father-of-his-Country" Smith and two other Virginians...
...founding of a university must be dated to a split second of time, then the founding of Harvard should perhaps be fixed by the fall of the president's gavel in announcing the passage of the vote of October 28, 1636. But if the founding is to be regarded as a process rather than as a single event, and more especially if in that process John Harvard's bequest gave to the College, within a month or two of its opening session, its first substantial endowment, then he is clearly entitled to be considered a founder. The General Court evidently...
Washington's Lieutenant-Governor Victor Aloysius ("Vic") Meyers, onetime jazz bandmaster who campaigns for a hostess on every street car, began a book: "They laughed when I picked up the gavel...