Word: conventionalized
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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A FEW weeks ago we offered you our Election Year Argument Settler (TIME, July 16), the little red disk which provides the short answers to more than 800 political questions. Since then, letters asking for the Argument Settler have been coming in at the rate of 2,000 to 3...
"A political party's national convention is like the adult life of a May fly -brief, spectacular and essential to the preservation of the species," the booklet begins. Describing this peculiarly American phenomenon, the booklet reviews the histories of the two major parties, showing with a graphic flow chart...
Things began to go Adlai's way right after Estes Kefauver retired from the presidential race and attached his little red caboose to the end of Stevenson's impressive string of delegate cars (including a few sleepers). After canvassing the 54 delegations bound for the convention (see box...
Veterans Together. Stevenson's triumphal, whistle-tooting week began when Estes Kefauver called a press conference in the Congressional Room of Washington's venerable Willard Hotel-the same room where he had launched his campaign last December. There, standing by accident beneath an EXIT sign and flanked by...
The Harriman forces were stunned. Harriman had been dickering hard for Kefauver support, had. moreover, been wooing Kefauver delegates. In Chicago, when Harriman's national campaign director, Loyd Benefield, got wind of the Kefauver abdication, he worked around the clock to corral Kefauver strays, wound up with some success...