Word: conventionalized
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Meanwhile, Truman sailed eastward for a seven-week visit to Europe (during which he will write a series of columns for Hearst's King Features Syndicate). Honest Ave Harriman got ready to swing west on a dozen-stop speechmaking tour through seven states. Warming up before he took off...
Last week the Teamsters were obviously on the mind of doughty David Dubinsky, president of the International Ladies Garment Workers Union and a member of the A.F.L.-C.I.O. ethical-practices committee. Said Dubinsky at the opening session of the I.L.G.W.U.'s 29th triennial convention in Atlantic City: labor leaders...
In five states last week, primary elections shook down fields of hopefuls for the serious campaigning ahead: ¶In Ohio a pair of fireplug-size campaigners earned the right to meet in November for the governor's chair that Frank J. Lausche is vacating to run for the U.S...
Michigan's boyish, bow-tied Governor G. (for Gerhard) Mennen Williams, who has been in the statehouse longer than any previous Michigan governor, announced last week that he will seek a fifth two-year term. "Soapy" Williams is obviously serious about running for reelection, but is not likely to...
Funerals are getting weepier, and a good thing, too, according to the executive secretary of the National Funeral Directors Association. Speaking in Milwaukee to the 75th annual convention of the Wisconsin Funeral Directors Association, Howard C. Raether said that the trend is now away from the cut-and-dried "memorial...