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Word: conventioneering (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1920-1929
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A potential of 103 billion dollars assembled in a Manhattan convention room last week at the annual meeting of the Association of Life Insurance Presidents. That sum is the major amount of life insurance held in the U. S.† In the past year alone, policies totalling 19.8 billions were...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Medicine: Insurance for Research | 12/23/1929 | See Source »

Irénée du Pont, gunpowder & chemical tycoon, who attended the convention as a director of Equitable Life Assurance Society, envisioned a great collateral use for these stupendous sums. Said he: let the insurance companies each year contribute one-eighth of one cent of every dollar of their...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Medicine: Insurance for Research | 12/23/1929 | See Source »

This polymorphous streptococcus is the changeable germ which Harvard's great hygienist Milton Joseph Rosenau told an American Medical Association Convention 13 years ago was probably the cause of many baffling infections.

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Medicine: Influenza Germ Found | 12/23/1929 | See Source »

Dec. 21?Second national convention of the National Textile Workers' Union in Paterson, N. J.

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Time Table: Dec. 23, 1929 | 12/23/1929 | See Source »

The story concerns two American girls, who, with an eye for pioneering possibilities, discover the account of a barque that is to make its farewell voyage from Vancouver to the Fiji Islands. There are numerous difficulties of practicality and convention to be overcome, but the author and her friend are...

Author: By R. W. P., | Title: Girl Scouts Afloat | 12/20/1929 | See Source »

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