Word: conventionalized
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Both Chicago and Philadelphia bid for the Republican Convention and, like San Francisco, guaranteed $250,000 to the national committee. But the memory of Philadelphia's sorry hotel accommodations at the 1948 convention lingered on, and Chicago could make no definite commitment to the G.O.P. as to the desired...
It would be the first major national political convention in San Francisco since the Democrats nominated James M. Cox and Franklin Delano Roosevelt there in 1920. For years, some Republican leaders (notably Massachusetts' Joe Martin) had promised that the G.O.P. would meet in the west, but never before had...
Willis has an infinite capacity for sentimental self-deception. He can persuade himself that his mean dealings are really high-minded, that his sales-convention humor is funny, that his cliche-laden speeches are profound. He has the most dreadfully patronizing mannerisms that ever drove a wife (or a reader...
"Several schools have found that increased selectivity in admissions usually brings more remuneration and prestige to graduates. More able young men and women want to get in," he said yesterday in Chicago at the convention of the American Association of Colleges for Teacher Education. Emens is president of Ball State...
Two years ago, slim, smiling Governor Kubitschek. son of a Polish immigrant, heard somebody say that the 1955 presidential election would be a lottery. Commented Kubitschek: "The governor of Minas Gerais holds a ticket." A year later the left-of-center Partido Social Democratico (P.S.D.) gave Kubitschek the task of...