Word: gavelling
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...Liberal Union will petition the Faculty Committee on Student. Activities and the Student Council for recognition of a new political magazine. Sanctioned by the Union's full board at a spring meeting, the magazine, The Gavel, will first appear in October...
...enemy-House Appropriations Chairman Clarence Cannon, 71. McKellar yelled that Missouri's Cannon was "blind . . . stupid . . . pigheaded" and altogether "goddamned." Cannon, who several years ago traded blows with New York's brass-lunged John Taber, started after McKellar. The tottering McKellar grabbed his long-handled gavel and got ready to swing. Colleagues managed to keep the two old cocks apart...
...mischievous Wayne Morse inquired innocently whether it wasn't a fact that the Southern states had shirked responsibility in helping to provide for their own highways. Douglas agreed that it might be so. Arkansas' McClellan was on his feet protesting such an outrageous libel. McKellar pounded his gavel so hard it flew out of his hands, fixed Douglas in a baleful stare, invoked Rule 19, which forbids any Senator to speak derogatorily of a state, and demanded unanimous consent to have Douglas' remarks expunged...
...full minute, the audience in the visitors' gallery applauded (although applause is forbidden and almost never heard in U.N.'s sedate halls). Malik vainly pounded his gavel, furiously threatened to expel the public from the chamber...
...Russian had hardly seized the gavel when he pounced back to the issue over which he had walked out. The Nationalist Chinese delegate, Malik "ruled," had no right to sit in the Council, since he did not represent the Chinese people. When the U.S. and friends challenged this arbitrary ruling, Malik tried another tack. He submitted a provisional agenda which blandly ignored the rule of taking up unfinished business left over from the preceding session (a U.S. resolution condemning North Korean aggression). Malik proposed two items of his own: the seating of Communist China in the U.N., and "peaceful settlement...