Word: conventionalized
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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With little more than a month to go before the national convention, the Democratic Baby last week was uncommonly quiet and still. Party leaders nibbled cucumber sandwiches in Illinois, collected chigger bites in Iowa, stood at attention for the Uruguayan national anthem in Montevideo (Minn.), smiled at each other across...
Beneath this calm surface, the Democratic situation of 1956 has the ingredients for as much hollering and noise as the party has ever heard before. There is the basic split between moderates and radicals on economic and social policy. The fuse burns short on the civil-rights issue. And personal...
While Harriman was having trouble getting the wood on the ball at Atlantic City, Stevenson rattled solid base hits off political fences from Minnesota to Tennessee. In Minnesota, the Democratic-Farmer-Labor convention instructed its 30-vote national convention delegation to switch to Stevenson as soon as released by Kefauver...
¶ The General Council of the Congregational Christian Churches wound up its week-long convention in Omaha with resolutions against racial bias, liquor advertising, and persecution of witnesses by investigating committees. Biggest achievement: approval (after an all-night argument) of plans for merger with the Evangelical and Reformed Church under...
How should women employees be handled? Last week, to Wisconsin bankers at their annual convention, pert, 38-year-old Phyllis Brown, an editor at the Research Institute of America, gave some new tips on an old subject.