Word: gavelling
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...Franklin Clark Fry, it was unthinkable that God's business should be carried out with less professional dispatch than man's. Gavel in hand, he presided over ecumenical gatherings or sessions of his Lutheran Church in America with the cool parliamentary aplomb of a Speaker of the House-a job for which many of his clerical admirers thought him well-suited. Yet he was also a man of deep faith who saw the unification of divided Christendom as a divine imperative for the twentieth century. When he died of cancer last week at the age of 67, seven...
...changed the horse's name from A.T.'s Image (after Fuller's father, former Massachusetts Governor A. T. Fuller) to Dancer's Image, and put him up for auction. The bidding reached $25,000, stopped-and, just as the gavel was about to fall, Fuller had a change of heart. After bidding $26,000 himself, he paid the auctioneer's 10% commission and took the animal back...
...Europe for 150 U.S. companies. Now the ratio is changing rapidly. The Earl of Cromer, for instance, until recently governor of the Bank of England, is the new chairman of IBM United Kingdom. Dr. Frederick H. Boland, the man who as United Nations General Assembly President broke a gavel in 1960 trying to silence Nikita Khrushchev, is chairman of Esso Ireland. Though names help, such executives are less and less anxious to be figureheads. "If they want a yes-man," says Managing Director Gian-Carlo Salva of Honeywell Italy, "they can get my doorman for $100 a month...
...devotedly donate a minimum $12.50 annual membership fee that provides more than a quarter of the $2,400,000 budget. Another $200,000 to $300,000 comes from a wild annual public sale that in the past has attracted Auctioneers Ronald Reagan, Willie Mays and Bishop James Pike to gavel down such items as a safari to Africa and neckties made from bed sheets on which the Beatles slept...
...years. After the sentencing, the Bolivian army seemed determined to close the whole Debray matter, which has become a cause celebre in France. The court's legal adviser denied permission for any appeals and, as defense attorneys rose to protest, Court President Efraín Gauchalla banged his gavel so angrily that it snapped in two, and then adjourned the court...