Word: gavelling
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...hands of the Senate clock overlapped, Vice President Garner laid down his cigar, blew out a puff of smoke, brought his gavel down smartly...
...Brooklyn. Brooklyn real estate is the favorite merchandise of Joseph Paul Day, most extraordinary of U. S. salesmen. Many times has "Joe" Day auctioned off more than $1,000,000 worth of real estate in a single day, knocking it down with the flat of his hand for a gavel. Altogether he has sold over $1,250,000,000 worth of other people's land and buildings. Some 20 years ago he bought himself a sandspit -most of it underwater-at the east end of Coney Island, paying more than $1,000,000 for it. There he developed "Manhattan...
...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...