Word: gavelling
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...Just a moment, please!" cried Moderator Faye Emerson. Helplessly banging her gavel, she tried to get a word in: "Gentlemen! Gentlemen! Excuse me, gentlemen!" The gentlemen disregarded her. At one point, she made a fluttery appeal to the studio audience: "I am only a woman, and I'm not very well able to moderate this...
...command with Chairman Holton, a onetime $5-a-month law clerk who became general counsel of Vacuum Oil Co., another result of the trustbusting, and moved into 26 Broadway in 1931, when Socony and Vacuum merged. Jennings' hobby is woodworking. When he discovered that Chairman Holton's gavel was missing, he took an old table leg and turned him a new one on his lathe. The gavel is used sparingly, for both men rule Socony largely by committee (the board and the four-man executive committee) ; it is too large to do otherwise...
...time the last gavel was rapped, the San Francisco weather had changed and so had the political climate. Ike's campaign was airborne, and Taft's flying bandwagon had taken the stiffest jolt to date. Hardy G.O.P. professionals were not likely to be swayed by either a breach of manners or a fervent speech. But they were just the ones to notice the little shifts, such as the new cordiality between the Ikemen and Earl Warren (who controls 70 California delegates) and the fact that the galleries liked...
...skillful handling of the Japanese Treaty conference at San Francisco, Acheson got at least his forepaws out of the public's doghouse, and proved once again that he would be a masterful Secretary of State if all the U.S.'s enemies could be disposed of with a gavel. Yet all through 1951, Acheson's State Department was still caught as tight as Brer Rabbit in Tar Baby. The useless and impossible effort to justify its past mistakes consumed its energies. In this year-long waste of time, Senator Joe McCarthy, the poor man's Torquemada, played...
After an hour and 45 minutes of gavel-banging and intermittent bellowing, the subcommittee had the answers to just two questions: 1) Grunewald's name, and 2) his age (59). Grunewald was ordered to appear again in six weeks, and the committee adjourned for the holidays. The groundwork for a contempt-of-Congress citation had been laid, but that procedure might take as long as two years. What the subcommittee needed was Grunewald's testimony...