Word: conventioneering
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Country-wide debate on Prohibition last week moved to new ground when the subject upcropped without warning before the American Medical Association meeting at Portland, Ore. (see p. 37). Heretofore at A. M. A. conventions, as at the gatherings of most other non-political organizations, liquor discussions have been avoided...
Other business of the convention: Judge William M. Lewis, Chairman of the United Palestine Appeal announced that $339,617 had been raised for reconstruction work in Palestine. Manhattan's Louis Lipsky was elected president of the organization. A motion to raise the dues from $6 to $8 was voted...
When first the Russian Communists started to undermine the power of the Russian Orthodox Church they welcomed into their country Baptists, Methodists, helped thereby to create factions in the Orthodox Church and weaken it. In time however, the Baptists grew so strong that not only was Russian Orthodoxy threatened but...
Springing directly from the Silent Cinema, the Talking Cinema is controlled mainly by strong Silent Cinemen. Great film names, with sound and without, are Fox Film Corp., Paramount-Famous-Lasky Corp., Warner Bros., United Artists. Yet one potent Talking Cinema company backs its speaking present with no silent past. This...
Dr. William James Mayo, famed surgeon of Rochester, Minn., sailed last week from Montreal to attend a British medical convention. Said he: "Canadian affairs feel the influence of a billion dollars of American capital, but American affairs feel the influence of ten billion dollars worth of Canadian brains. . . . At Rochester...