Word: gavelling
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...first day of his duel with Hollywood's suspected Communists, Representative J. Parnell Thomas, a choleric man, smashed one gavel to a smither. Next day he turned up with two new ones, prepared, if necessary, to smash both to smithereens. The spot he had put himself in was enough to try the patience of a saint, and J. Parnell ("Undoubting Thomas," as the Nation called him) was no saint. But he hated Beelzebub, and he was trying to solve the fly problem with a horse whip...
...stormy uproar punctuated by Chairman Thomas' gavel and boos from the audience, Witness Lawson was asked four times whether he was or ever had been a Communist Party member. Four times Lawson challenged the committee's right to ask, and refused to answer. When Lawson was ordered from the stand (and contempt proceedings against him started), a committee investigator produced copies of Communist registration cards for 1944. Number 47275, he said, was in the name of John Howard Lawson...
Then Vishinsky picked up a handy gavel, rapped the desk and stomped out. Last week, the U.S. Government granted a visa to Pierre Courtade, to cover U.N. for the Paris Communist paper L'Humanité, but it attached strings. Courtade could not go anywhere in the U.S. except New York, could only write about the United Nations while here...
...their most effective antiCommunist weapon-the charge that the Communists fight Christianity. Says a Communist observer: "You might say that Togliatti decided for the moment to dispense with the crude sickle in favor of the more delicate rapier. And instead of the hammer, we find Terracini's parliamentary gavel more effective...
...twenty percent "across the board." A fellow partisan from Massachusetts joined the chorus, pledging his own efforts to a slash of one-fifth. Today, four months later, Harold Knutson of Minnesota is Chairman of the House Ways and Means Committee, and Joe martin of Massachusetts wields the Speaker's gavel. The tax-reduction will stands at the head of the legislative calendar as House Resolution Number...