Word: gavelling
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...Tallulah, drowning out the wee, piping yips of her Maltese terrier, thundered "Dahling!" to a couple of "divine people" who had paid her homage after a hellish day in the House (see NATIONAL AFFAIRS). Her admirers: Democratic Speaker Sam Rayburn and Republican sometime Speaker Joe Martin, successors to the gavel of Tallulah's daddy, the late Democratic Speaker (1936-40) William B. Bankhead. After pecking each gentleman smudgily on the cheek, she primly explained: "I can't compromise them. They're both bachelors...
After a Grandmother: Finnigin. Over on the House side, Republican Joe Martin was getting ready to hand the Speaker's gavel back to Democrat Sam Rayburn and then to step down to his familiar post as minority leader. From the opening-day scramble Rayburn took time out for an act of simple kindness. With his office full of Congressmen, job-seekers and admirers, Rayburn got an apologetic telephone call from Ohio's freshman Representative Thomas Ludlow Ashley. Ashley's 87-year-old grandmother was in Washington to see young (32) Lud sworn in. For more than...
Arthur Watkins of Utah is a hard man who knows how to use a gavel. Four weeks ago, he used one to discipline Joe McCarthy. And in his committee's 60-page censure report there is a hardness and a sharpness which brings to mind those early rings from the Senator's gavel...
...Nehru and his only daughter, Indira Gandhi (36) will fly to Peking as guests of Chou Enlai. But, of course, the look of neutrality would be scrupulously preserved. While Nehru is in China, India's Vice President Radhakrishnan will be presenting an ivory gavel, carved from an Indian elephant's tusk, to the U.S. Senate. The Senate's gavel, in use since the days of the first Vice President, John Adams, was recently broken by hard-gaveling Richard Nixon. India offers to replace it as "a symbolic gesture of friendship towards...
...Democratic colleagues did not like Senator McCarthy."* But McCarthy was far from satisfied with the Watkins ruling and the Johnson explanation. Trying to find out if Johnson had been accurately quoted. McCarthy cried: "Mr. Chairman, I should be entitled to know whether or not-" Arthur Watkins banged down his gavel and snapped: "The Senator is out of order." Concluded McCarthy: "-whether it is true or false." Again, down went the gavel. Said Watkins: "We are not going to be interrupted by these diversions and sidelines. We are going straight down the line...