Word: gavelling
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...Ervin pounded his gavel for the last time at 4:45 in the afternoon and then, after a round of handshakes and picture taking, he took the gavel with him as he departed for a surprise party to celebrate Herman E. Talmadge's 60th birthday. After 37 days, 33 witnesses, 7,573 pages of transcript and nearly 2,000,000 words of testimony, just about everybody felt it was time for a rest...
...view their fellow Americans as enemies to be harassed" but rather as "human beings to be loved and won." For a few brief seconds, the room was stone silent. Then the gallery broke into the loudest and longest applause of the proceedings, drowning out the sound of the gavel-pounding...
From 1948-1952, O'Neill wielded a heavy gavel, physically and spiritually. "Tip probably broke more gavels than any speaker in the past 25 years," recalled State Rep. Jim Cravin. "Contrary to some speakers, Tip never let the House get out of control. He believed in the system: everyone follows the rules. He wanted good attendance records from all members." He even locked the doors during important roll calls to, as O'Neill put it, "keep a, fella from taking a walk." "As strict as he was, he displayed a good sense of humor from the chair but never went...
...leaders of some two dozen juvenile gangs. "Judge, we thought you were a miserable guy," said one of the hosts, "but then we agreed that you were the same miserable guy to everybody-a miserable guy but fair." In addition to such tributes, the judge received a new gavel...
Epton's first disillusionment was his discovery that the gavel had been stolen from another judge. Worse, he soon learned that two-thirds of those who came before him in criminal court were repeaters. "The heart breaks," he said "at seeing the same mothers time after time, wringing their hands because I'd already sent three or four members of their families to jail." Most discouraging of all were the appearances of some of the boys he had helped in boys' court -pranksters who had turned out to be hoodlums. "They had graduated from petty thievery...