Word: conventionalized
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Largely responsible for last week's success was Dwight Eisenhower himself. Pink-cheeked and purple-tied, Ike found his head table seat like a Rotary Club regular, ate filet mignon (rare) while 480 paying guests struggled with minute steak. He chatted amiably with tablemates, helped pass along scribbled suggestions...
With commercial jets about to span the U.S. in 5 ½hours, central geography is no longer such a factor in choosing political convention sites. More important to coffer-conscious political leaders is the amount that major U.S. cities are willing to pay for the prestige of a convention and...
NEW ORLEANS, La.--A hard-bargaining Democratic party committee chose Los Angeles yesterday as the site for the party's 1960 national convention.
A similar Republican party committee plans to meet in Des Moines, Iowa, today and tomorrow to receive bids from the same cities that sought the Democratic convention.
Three other cities--San Francisco, Philadelphia and Miami Beach--were in the final running for the big convention.