Word: gavelling
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...audience roared their applause until General Assembly President Lester Pearson cracked his gavel. Before the U.N. forum, the U.S. had often made its case with telling legal corrections; seldom had its case been made with such simple, quotable eloquence...
This week Vice President Alben William Barkley will step up on the rostrum of the U.S. Senate with his gavel, and the 83rd Congress will come to order. The Senate and the House will organize, and then will begin a resolute fortnight of shadow boxing...
...Gavel. "I come to you not just as an official of the Democratic Party. I come as a woman, a wife who wore a Gold Star in World War I and a mother who wore...
Gold Star in World War II . . ." She abhorred war, she said, but called on her sex to demand that the U.S. live up to its military responsibilities. When the crowd grew noisy she seized the gavel and whacked away with it like a section hand driving a spike. When she was done, half the delegates came to their feet to cheer. "I would have appreciated a little silence more," said Mrs. India Edwards grimly...
...hours last week, from the opening gavel to the nomination, television's three big networks* carried the story of the convention to 18 million U.S. homes, offices and bars, drawing an estimated 70 million people to the screen for lessons in politics, parliamentary procedure and citizenship. The candidates and their managers found television an invaluable intelligence service; some newsmen decided that they could cover the show best at their ease before a TV screen (see PRESS...