Word: conventionalize
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Dates: during 1910-1919
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The convention will open at 10 o'clock tomorrow morning at which time President F. W. Burlingham '91 will present his report and suggestions for the coming year. At two in the afternoon the business meeting will convene for the election of officers.
"The three most important principles in the foundation of the American Legion, were adopted at the St. Louis convention. First, it was decided that the Legion is to be a civilian organization. There is to be no distinction of rank between members,-a private is to have the same standing...
"It seems to me that of the first actions of the St. Louis convention are particularly significant. The delegates voted down the 'Grab Bill' to give every discharged soldier six months additional pay. This bill had been proposed in Congress as a political measure in order to win votes from...
"By refusing to hold its second annual meeting in Chicago, the Legion made it plain what its action toward pro-Germans and former pro-Germans would be. Mayor Thompson of Chicago had refused to invite the French mission to his city, had publicly proclaimed Chicago as the 'sixth German city...
"The original plan of forming an association of American War Veterans was started in Europe this fall, when a group of officers, meeting by chance in Paris, decided that there ought to be such an organization. Thereupon they called a caucus of representatives of all the units in the American...