Word: conventioneering
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Charlie Brannan was piqued. The American Farm Bureau Federation, the nation's largest and most potent farm group, had not even invited him to be a speaker at its 31st annual convention. Furthermore, the Secretary of Agriculture was pretty sure that the federation was preparing to crunch his controversial...
At 18, he entered the army's Toronto training school, left it nine months later to deal with a wayward world. He became one of the army's most accomplished performers on the euphonium. Ernest could make men cry with his deep-throated horn. He married British-born...
It could be true, as cantankerous Andrew Jackson Gillis kept insisting, that he was not the same old boy. "Bossy" Gillis still looked as seedy as Burpee's spring catalogue, and he fitted into the gentle, museum-piece decor of old Newburyport, Mass, like a prime bull at a...
Into the gilded ballroom of Manhattan's Waldorf-Astoria Hotel last week trooped 3,000 members of the National Association of Manufacturers for their annual convention.
Other delegates to the convention will also give their reports.