Word: conventionalized
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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But more and more it began to look as though compromise and the Dawson line might founder on the political facts of life. Last week pressure from Negro voters (who could conceivably tip the balance in nine Northern states) was beginning to tell on local Democratic organizations. In Detroit, Negro...
¶In Alaska, with returns still coming in by bush plane from isolated districts, Stevenson led Kefauver by 5,900 to 3,700 and cinched Alaska's six convention votes. Collecting more votes than either Democrat was Republican Eisenhower, even though his Administration was supposedly in bad odor because...
Fashion trends for this summer will be as exotic as the Orient, as sleek as sheaths, as versatile as two-season designing will permit, and as fashionable as ever. Both women's and men's clothing will essentially follow convention, yet there will be twists of the bizarre.
CBS did somewhat better for William Jennings Bryan in a You Are There report on the first of his three nominations for the presidency. Ainslie Pryor, as Bryan, got a rococo fervor into his big "Cross of Gold" speech that captured the deadlocked convention and enabled the Great Commoner to...
By spending standards, the convention mecca of the world is Manhattan. In 1955 alone, 2,265,000 delegates spent $213 million during 756 conventions. But Manhattan had a problem: the best exhibition hall was Grand Central Palace, a huge, outdated, twelve-story structure, which the Bureau of Internal Revenue took...