Word: conventioneering
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Wisconsin. All night long the Wisconsin Republicans wrangled in a state convention. The factions were the old-time LaFollette progressives and the followers of Walter Jodok Kohler, plumbing fixture tycoon, Hooverite nominee for Governor. At dawn the Kohlerites had forced an endorsement of Hooverism-the first time in 20 years...
The Iowa Farmers' Union, in convention at Des Moines, by a resolution passed immediately after an hour-and-a-half Hooverizing address by U. S. Senator Smith Wildman Brookhart.
The United Association of Plumbers, Gas and Steam Fitters (membership 125,000), by resolution in a quadrennial convention at Atlantic City.
A few days after the Ohio Methodists were Willebrandtized. the Northern Baptist Convention (representing about 1,250,000 souls) was told by its officials that all good Baptists are expected to vote against Smith, for Hoover.
The American Chemical Society met. last week, at Swampscott, Mass., for their 76th convention. Members discussed: