Word: conventionalized
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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In the difficult process of trying to pull the poles of the Democratic Party together, Stevenson was clearly having more success than Kefauver. He won a waferthin victory in a somewhat bored Florida (a margin of 12,000 votes in a total vote of 430,000), but it gave him...
For 20 minutes the Jefferson City Junior College auditorium rocked and rolled last week as 1,600 shouting, foot-stomping delegates to the Missouri State Democratic Convention chanted over and over again: "We want Stu! We want Stu!" At the microphone, long-legged U.S. Senator William Stuart Symington, 54, his...
At an editors' convention in Washington a few weeks ago, Chief Editorial Writer Lauren Soth of the Des Moines Register was taken aback by a colleague's question: Why doesn't the Register run anything about anti-Negro discrimination in Iowa? The questioner: Editor in Chief Grover...
It is possible that only the vigorous exercise of bad judgment kept John Charles Fremont from becoming one of the authentic giants of U.S. history. His behavior in California during the Mexican War led to court-martial for mutiny, disobedience and conduct prejudicial to order, and his resignation from the...
Out on a Limb. In Chicago, after making personal appearances among 1,150 exhibits stretched over five miles of the Navy Pier, Ruth Elaine Conte abdicated as queen of the National Restaurant Association's convention, handed her crown over to N.R.A. President Marion Isbell, bawled, "That's enough...