Word: conventioneering
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Can citizens have forgotten the great three-cornered battle front of 1924, the Cleveland convention where the old guard in revolt named Frank O. Lowden for Vice-President and, when he proudly turned them down, revolted again and named Charles Gates Dawes, with whom afterwards they quarreled? Or that eleven...
Offending the Negro politicians will never do, for their power at the nominating convention of 1932 may be as great as ever. But the Hoover heart beats in sincere, if muffled, sympathy with Southern white men. His instinct is to heed their wishes. He knows the sting of the "nigger...
These things were told the 20th annual convention of Merchant Tailors, assembled in Philadelphia last week; by Tailor Wilbur W. Stewart. Tailor Stewart believes in restrictive immigration but suggests that the Department of Labor, instead of admitting unskilled aliens who make a livelihood only with difficulty, survey the labor field...
Professor Edwin F. Gay of the Department of Economics in the University was elected President of the American Economics Society at the annual convention of that Society in Chicago last month.
He might have been President, had he not been so hostile to William Jennings Bryan in 1912. Famed, but not so signifi cant as the Underwood boom of 1912, was Alabama's cry, "Twenty-four votes for Oscar W. Underwood," which was re peated 103 times at the Democratic convention...