Word: gavelling
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Milling Congressional veterans shouted greetings to re-elected cronies, slapped backs, shook hands. Pages guided determined-looking first-termers through the teeming lobbies. Cameras whirred beneath incandescent lights. Vice President Henry Wallace snapped a gavel in the Senate. Bald Clerk South Trimble cracked another in the House. The 78th Congress was ready for business...
Officers of the Murray Co., where she has worked since January, sent twelve dozen roses and six dozen carnations. C.I.O. President Philip Murray sent the mahogany gavel he used at the national convention in Boston last fortnight. While members cheered, Betty Karr-as the first woman president of a steelworkers' local at a plant which is exclusively in the steel business-took over Phil Murray's gavel...
...trouble brewed as soon as urbane, grey-haired Chairman Clarence Edward Groesbeck pounded the gavel to open the company's meeting in downtown Manhattan. Up jumped scrappy, leather-lunged Stockholder Samuel Okin, crying: "This whole meeting is invalid . . . the proxies must be checked." Chairman Groesbeck quickly shoved the gavel into the hands of tall, suave Ebasco President Samuel Wilson Murphy, but the rumpus could not be stopped...
...Lusitania. Their father died on a World War I battlefield. They have passed the best part of 23 years in court trying to get a clear title to the half-billion dollars fate and father left them. The Gay Sisters chronicles this courtroom crisis straight through to the final gavel...
...Court, the Cabinet, all of the U.S. Government under one skylight roof. Below the great flat-hung Stars & Stripes stood Vice President Henry Agard Wallace, Speaker Sam Rayburn. The heavy applause lingered, gradually began to break into cheers and rebel yells. Speaker Rayburn gave one smash of his heavy gavel, introduced the President in one sentence...