Word: conventioneering
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Chicago-born Correspondent Steele. 39, came to TIME from the United Press in 1953, first covered Capitol Hill before he moved over to the White House a little more than a year ago. Since then he has seldom been far away from the President. Because the White House, like a...
* At last month's Republican National Convention, orators usually called the opposition the "Democrat" Party. Last week the G.O.P. National Committee explained that the shortened adjective will be official Republican campaign usage because the "party of the Pender-gasts or Tammany Hall" cannot be considered a democratic party. After...
Rude Awakening. Whip-smart Walter Reuther, the United Auto Workers' leader whose political prestige was placed on the November line by his effective convention support of a Stevenson-Kefauver ticket, launched into a 20-minute argument for an all-out Democratic endorsement. Labor, said Reuther, must protect its bargaining...
Under the sponsorship of the United Nations, representatives of 51 countries gathered in Geneva's ornate Palais des Nations to deal with a problem which presumably was settled in the 19th century. The idea was to adopt a new international convention against "slavery, the slave trade and institutions and...
Just as nervously, the U.S. sat the whole thing out. Early in the conference, U.S. Delegate Walter Kotschnig announced that the U.S. would not participate in the debate and voting, nor would it sign the new antislavery convention no matter what it said. The State Department's avowed reason...