Word: gavelling
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...Although Chairman John Hamilton bangs his gavel for order at 11 a.m. June 24, and Keynoter Governor Stassen begins at 10 that night, next night ex-President Hoover says his say, third day is scheduled for the platform. Thus balloting will probably not begin until Thursday, June 27-which means the loss of a full work-week for delegates, who supposedly pay their own expenses during the Convention...
...chewing Senator Donahey took on only one Senate chore. After a squad of Senators had turned down the chairmanship of the TVA investigation, he took it, kept order with a Boy Scout knife which he used alternately as a toothpick, nail-clipper, and gavel...
...tobacco and alcohol, and humid with perspiration, was unbearable. The men, after hours of frenzied attempts at agreement, were tired and sick. They paid no attention to the speakers except to hiss off the platform those whose stentorian tones interrupted conversations on the floor. The chairman wearily hammered his gavel and introduced the last speaker of the day. Thanking heaven that the end was near, he slumped in his chair and mopped his forehead with a soggy handerkerchief...
Acting Chairman Starnes, banging his gavel, choked: "We don't want this record cluttered up either with praise or condemnation." finally released the Silvershirt leader with the curt statement: "The Committee is through with...
...when Chairman Howard Ennes pounded his gavel, the weary delegates perked up. Not because they expected the speeches to be much fun, or because they thought the meeting would advance the A. Y. C.'s advertised aim: passage of the $500,000,000 Murray Youth Bill to establish a permanent Federal Youth Administration. They had come to see a sideshow. They had their eyes peeled for one Murray Plavner...