Word: conventioneering
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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As to the exact origin of the Republican party few historians agree. When the Whigs held their national convention in New York City in 1852, the sidewalks buzzed with popular talk of a new party. Editor Horace Greeley of the Tribune seriously pondered the future with his friend Alvan Earle...
Once they have left Copenhagen they intend to cover in part Sweden, Norway, Denmark, and venture into Germany. Engagements have been made to do a large number of various kinds of jobs including theatre contracts, convention work, and dance music all along the way.
Parlor magic, unlike most other divisions of skill and science, is far from dominated by professionals. Unknown to the public are numberless amateurs. They play a game of baffle among themselves. Some 500 members, amateur and professional, of the Society of American Magicians (total membership about 1,650), held their...
Many an amateur in the New York district conducted private displays for the benefit of the convention delegates last week. Notable among these was Dr. Samuel Cox Hooker of Brooklyn who first produced his Impossibilities and Miltiades III in 1918. At that time he astonished and mystified some of the...
Congregationalists. Fired with like hopes, closer to realization than the Presbyterians, the National Council of Congregational Churches in the United States voted unanimously last week at Detroit to join with the General Convention of Christian Churches in a union whose leadership will total about 1,080,000 souls. To their...