Word: gavelling
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...John Daniel, "Biscuit king of Great Britain" and Cardiff shipbuilder, headed a delegation of Welsh Moose; handed Director General Davis a gavel made of wood from the house where Mr. Davis was born, in Tredegar, Wales...
...mention dang sweet-looking cowgirls in fo' gallon hats and white riding breeches, the delegates to Denver's most important 1927 convention were all nerves at 9:30 o'clock at the Broadway Theatre, when C. K. Woodbridge, president of the whole shebang, brought his gavel down with a resounding wallop. And then, while startled lady delegates mumbled prayers and the more timid male admen thought about their life insurance, President...
President James Augustine Farrell of U. S. Steel Corp., six feet tall, towering and blocky as a full-rigged schooner, took a gavel in his great fist last week. He thwacked the speaker's table smartly and the 14th yearly convention of the National Foreign Trade Council went into three-day convention at Detroit. Mr. Farrell organized the Council in 1914 and has always been its chairman. When he rapped for order, he got it. Nor did many of the 2,000 manufacturers, merchants, shippers, railroaders, steamship men, importers and exporters who went to Detroit last week stray across...
...salt on the wounds, said: "Let him [David A. Reed] go back and receive the cheers of the thugs and corruptionists of Pennsylvania and let them say to him that he is the Knight of the Closed and Corrupt Ballot Box. . . ." It was one minute before noon and the gavel of Vice President Dawes rapped sharply. "Oh, it's a shame to spoil a good speech like this," said Mr. Harrison. By the look in his beady-eyes, the Vice President had something curt to say. He said it: "The Chair regards the results of the present legislative session...
Finally, at the stroke of noon, the Speaker's gavel fell; the Navy Band struck up The Star Spangled Banner, followed by A Perfect Day, My Old Kentucky Home, The Sidewalks of New York Slowly, the House chamber emptied. . . . The janitors went to work...