Word: conventioneering
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Houston, with throngs of visitors in town for the Democratic Convention, was furiously ashamed. Witnesses declared that at least one of the lynchers had worn a policeman's uniform. But the police force cleared itself by obtaining from one A. B. Wheeler, boilermaker, a confession that he and six...
Elected. Arthur Merriman Harris, vice president of the World Sunday School Association; to be president of the Northern Baptist convention.
From the speech-making at the convention of the American Institute of Banking, earnest assistant cashiers culled these thoughts:
"Stay East, young man," counselled potent Meatpacker F. Edson White, president of Armour and Co., principal speaker at the Omaha convention of the National Live Stock and Meat Board. Middle Western farmers, declared Meatpacker White, should discourage "back-to-the-farm" propaganda, should hope for fewer farmers, higher prices. Confounding...
Louisville heard the roar of airplanes, the rumble of private railroad cars, and knew that Indiana's 89 realtors had arrived for the convention of the National Association of Real Estate Boards. Marion Stump, chosen to sing the praises of Indianapolis corner lots and bungalows, hoped to win the...