Word: conventioneering
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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It is gratifying to note that one of the important matters which your convention will consider is the concept of world peace through law. Peace cannot prevail until men and nations recognize that their conduct must be governed by respect for and observance of the law.
From that opening message, sent by President Eisenhower, a single theme ran through the 82nd annual convention of the American Bar Association last week in Miami. Where only a few years ago the subject was rarely mentioned at A.B.A. conventions, last week speaker after speaker expressed hope and belief in...
By convention's end, effort to achieve peace through law had been given still another strong push: newly elected A.B.A. President John D. Randall, a Cedar Rapids, Iowa attorney, threw his full weight behind an A.B.A. committee, headed by former President Charles Rhyne, which is already studying the possibilities...
Last week, as the Legion met in Minneapolis for its 41st convention, an attempt was made for the tenth straight year to force the 40 & 8 to accept nonwhites-and for the first time the motion came to a floor vote. Pushing hardest behind it were the Legion's...
Senate Democratic Leader Lyndon Johnson, another old Navyman, added his cool counsel to Nixon's, and the mood of the convention changed. The Legion's high command hastily redrafted its resolution. In the final, milder version, there was no criticism of Ike, and the Legion merely "counseled" the...