Word: gavelling
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...pleasure and an honor to the fraternity to present to you this gavel. It is not intrinsically a treasure nor is it a battle axe to rule the unruly. Rather, it is a symbol of the devotion, respect and affection of Dekes throughout the United States for a great Deke and gallant gentleman who is assuming the high office of Speaker of the House of Representatives. It is an expression of our confidence in the worthiness with which the office of Speaker will be administered in the 69th Congress, and lets you know that D. K. E.* backs...
...first time in 40 years the convention assembled without the dominating presence of Samuel Gompers in the chair. But William Green, his successor, seized the iron-handled hammer (a regular gavel had been forgotten) and pounded the desk, opening a session that was expected to last for two weeks. The chief events...
...gavel-tap of the Rt. Hon. Sir John Gilmour...
...Swede, a Dane and an Italian, a Swiss, a Greek, a Frenchman, a Hungarian, a Belgian, a Czecho-Slovakian, a German, a Persian. Americans were there. Colonials from Canada, India, Rhodesia, were there; swarthy sons, also, of Spain and of Hayti. Almost all pedagogs, they awaited the gavel-tap of the Rt. Hon. Sir John Gilmour, His Majesty's Secretary for Scotland, indicative of the opening of the second biennial conference of the World Federation of Educational Associations. Founded in the U. S. in 1923 (TIME, July 2, 9, 16, 1923), headed by Dr. Augustus O. Thomas of Maine, this...
Realtors, whatever it may have been in the past, is now a term synonymous with integrity, ability and fair dealing, redundantly stated one of National Association of Real Estate Boards at a convention in Detroit. Miss Lulu McKibbin presented the association with an olive wood gavel made at a carpenter shop in Nazareth by a boy ward from the U. S.; the game cock brought by the Texas delegation crowed lustily; the San Francisco boys' glee club sang; Winter Haven representatives gave away oranges; six exquisite Negroes with the Tampa stampers sang songs of the southland; girls were hired...