Word: gavelling
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...C.I.O. began its fourth annual convention in old Moose Temple in Detroit, Murray was a footsore, angry man with just enough dry humor left to make one crack. Accepting a gavel from Pittsburgh steelworkers, he remarked wryly that he had had to stop Milwaukee delegates from presenting him with a piece of Wisconsin cheese. Said Murray with his thick Scots burr: "Whilst the intent is good, it obviously would not be in good taste for the President . . . under these circumstances to either accept a ham or a piece of cheese...
...Rayburn of Texas left the microphone in the well of the House where he had been speaking, picked his way hurriedly back up to the marble dais and the gavel of his authority. The Speaker's face was strained, but he had the composure of a gambler whose bet is down. Tennessee's Jere Cooper, Speaker pro tempore, spoke the ritual words: "The time of the gentleman from Texas has expired-all time has expired...
...Speaker's gavel pounded the desk. Cried the Speaker: "The time of the gentleman from New York has expired!" But thin, grim Representative Mike Edelstein, fighting mad, talked...
...Speaker's gavel banged in vain as Mike Edelstein said his say. "All men are created equal, regardless of race, creed or color, and whether a man be Jew or Gentile, he may think what he deems...
...result of the Teachers Union elections held yesterday afternoon, F.O. Matthiessen, associate professor of History and Literature, will continue to swing the president's gavel for the next year. Vice-president will be Rupert Emerson '21, associate professor of Government...