Word: gavelling
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...five-story-high trading room of the New York Stock Exchange, activity ceased one morning last week as Exchange Chairman Edward C. Werle stepped onto the balcony, sounded a bell, pounded his gavel and read a statement. In an action rarely taken, the exchange censured and fined the partners of Garvin, Bantel & Co. $25,000, suspended Senior Partner George K. Garvin from trading for three months...
...Majority Leader Lyndon Johnson moved for adjournment; Vice President Nixon, presiding, brought down his gavel-and the jangling of the Senate call bells noisily marked the end of the 85th Congress. But before the bells clanged, there had been the usual maddening, last-minute fumbling blocks. Nevada's neolithic "Molly" Malone numbed Senate floor and galleries with a wandering diatribe against foreign aid that included lengthy quotations from George Washington, Karl Marx, Andrew Jackson and Molly Malone ("The Nevada air corps can lick any European nation"). While an early-finishing House sang Home on the Range, Wisconsin...
Every white congregation in Farmville (pop. 5,000), the county seat, prepared to turn its church into an integration-dodging private school at the drop of a gavel. But last week the churches got the news that they would be used only to glorify God. In a decision that Virginia's Governor J. Lindsay Almond Jr. called the "epitome of judicial statesmanship," Federal Judge Hutcheson-who was born in black-belt Mecklenburg County 64 years ago-granted the board a delay not of five but of seven years...
...whole had been deeply stirred by McClellan's revelations of corruption in Big Labor, might at election time wonder why a Democratic-controlled Congress had not done something about it. The man to ask was Democrat Sam Rayburn, 45-year House veteran, who has wielded his gavel too long and ruled the House too well to botch a legislative job accidentally...
...CRIMSON, lay not down your gavel...