Word: gavelling
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Last week its high, dark rooms were empty, stripped of their fittings. The American Art Association-Anderson Galleries, its license suspended for nonpayment of over $50,000 in debts, had banged down the gavel for perhaps the last time...
...Department, who, he said, "does not think Patrick Henry's achievements or his fame are worth a tinker's damn" and who had "emasculated" the bill with nullifying amendments. Carter Glass asked Senate emasculation of the amendments, passage of his original bill. He got it a few gavel raps later...
...afternoon last week in the assembly room on the 23rd floor of the Manhattan headquarters of Western Union Telegraph Co., suave old Board Chairman Newcomb Carlton fingered a gavel, peered out anxiously at 200 faces, more of Western Union's 30,772 stockholders than he had ever seen at one time. Western Union's President Roy Barton White, stocky old-time railroad telegrapher, was reading a prepared statement explaining why Western Union had lost $1,637,000 in 1938. When perspiring President White lamely concluded that the report was the company's and not to be considered...
...Newcomb Carlton imperiously whacked his gavel, a short, balding, dimpled little man circulated happily through the muttering crowd. He was Stockholder Arthur C. Flatto,* enjoying a day to which he had looked forward for many months...
...whose State party leaders made an election alliance with the Townsendites, showed what was likely to happen when Congress receives the committee's report. Trying to shout down a group of Democrats, Republican Treadway and his party members made so much noise that Chairman Doughton almost broke his gavel pleading: "Order! Gentlemen, Gentlemen, we will have order...