Word: gavelling
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...Madison Square Garden (Alabama-"24 votes for Oscahhh W. Undahhhwood") that finally nominated John W. Davis to run against Cal Coolidge (and Charles G. Dawes). At that convention the governor of Colorado was trampled in a melee, and the convention chairman banged so hard for order that his gavel flew apart, its head striking Delegate Herman Schoernstein squarely between the eyes...
...that he was my most distinguished constituent." On the Senate side, Ohio Republican George Bender was in mid-sentence when Florida Democrat Spessard Holland reminded the Senate that it was time to adjourn. Responded Vice President Richard Nixon : "The point of order is well taken." He banged down his gavel and the members of the 84th Congress scattered to take up their cam paign cudgels...
...moderator for the next year, the Presbyterians elected conservative Dr. William Taliaferro ("Tolly") Thompson, 70, who retired this month after 36 years as professor of Christian education at Union Theological Seminary in Richmond. In accepting the silver gavel, Dr. Thompson gave his fellow Presbyterians something for all Christians to think about. "Genuine Christians." said he, "ought to be as distinguishable from others as a civilized man is from a savage...
...Louisiana's Democratic Representative F. Edward Hebert, the subcommittee chairman, brought the room to life with a thwack of his gavel. "Gentlemen," cried Hebert excitedly, "the President has just announced his candidacy for re-election...
...crystal chandeliers in the U.S. Capitol had been taken down, disassembled, washed prism by prism, reassembled and rehung. Twenty-two painters had brushed their way across Capitol Hill, cleaning and painting walls. By this week all was in readiness for the fall of the gavel opening the second session of the 84th Congress...