Word: conventioneering
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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It was a nation that could afford to enjoy itself. On terraces high above torpid Manhattan, in screened lanais in Dallas and Miami, and in cattle camps along the Mexican border, Americans grilled their steaks and warded off the heat with long, cool drinks. Caravans of tourists swarmed to the...
Quadros will sail home in September for a hero's welcome at the U.D.N. convention, then change to sloppy clothes and two-day beard and set out to improve his great following among Brazilian workers. Said he: "Marshal Lott is a distinguished patriot, but to become President it is...
Oren Ethelbert Long, 70, U.S. Senator. A Kansas-born farm boy, Oren Long progressed from a one-room schoolhouse in Earlton to Tennessee's Johnson Bible College (Disciples of Christ) and the University of Michigan. He sailed to Hilo on Big Island in 1917 to become a social worker...
The third convention of the National Association of Syrian Lebanese American Clubs had been arranged, in the words of its president, Cosmo Ansara of Springfield, Mass., "to reintroduce the older people who were born over here to their former homeland and to give the second generation an opportunity to see...
As Hoffa left the crowded Senate caucus room at hearing's end, the McClellan committee had little cause for rejoicing. After three years of concentrated digging and tons of testimony, Jimmy Hoffa was a more arrogant, more dangerous labor boss than ever. And, as if to prove it, he...