Word: conventioneering
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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In the basement of Seattle's Civic Auditorium, delegates to the biennial convention of the A.F.L.-C.I.O. Bricklayers Union were happily engaged in the normal pursuits of a beer bust one night last week when a pair of topflight Democratic politicians dropped in. He hoped, said Adlai Stevenson, that...
Approximately $200 of the appropriation will go directly to NSA, while almost $400 is earmarked for travel expenses to the national convention.
Before 3,000 convention delegates last week, the United Mine Workers' Chief John L. Lewis angrily laid down the law on wildcat strikes in the coal industry. Rumbled Lewis, citing 170 local walkouts from January through April this year: "Carry this message back to your members : don't...
The suspension action was strongly defended, however, by the national headquarters of the SDA in Washington. Charlotte Lubin, executive secretary, said that the Columbia action was in direct violation of the SDA Constitution, which forbids any chapter to take public stands contrary to the position of the National Convention.
It is also nice to know that our ill-gotten money will be used nobly to enlarge a few delegates' capacity for sin, sex, and sadism at the National Convention. I have worked on Student Councils for the past three years and attended national as well as regional conventions. Nothing...