Word: conventioneering
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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As man of amity, Calvin Coolidge congratulated Neguest Tafari Makonnen on his coronation as King of Ethiopia, talked to King Alfonso of Spain over a new transatlantic wireless telephone, pressed a button opening the 11th Maui county fair in Hawaii, made a speech on "material and spiritual welfare" before the...
Nineteenth Century. Victoria's cream-colored ponies trotted up the avenue with a command for Orlando to dine; Lady Palmerston and Mrs. Gladstone left cards, but bored Orlando withdrew to the woods with her lover. True, she solemnly married him and bore her first child?but such was the irresistible...
The great sub rosa concern of Protestant Episcopal bishops, priests, laymen who met at Washington last week for their 49th triennial convention was hierarchy. Nominally the bishops are co-equal with John Gardner Murray of Maryland as presiding bishop. But a growing faction of Episcopalians love regimentation. Particularly the Anglicans...
Weeks started his political career in Newton, being an alderman, in that city from 1900 to 1902. He was mayor for the next two years, and chairman of the Republican state convention in 1905.
Resolution. From the convention there emerged, at length, a resolution. It caused no alarm in Manhattan. It said: