Word: conventioneering
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Regarding the Baptist convention's decision to recommend to their people that "the Roman Catholic Church is both a religion and an ambitious political system aspiring to be a state" [Nov. 16].
Last month Boone's own Kansas farm-bureau convention voted for the first time in its history to back a program 1) abolishing all acreage controls on wheat, 2) dropping price supports from today's $1.80 to $1.30 per bu. Nebraska and Colorado farm-bureau conventions voted for...
Hunting for some other way out, the surplus-surfeited corn belt shifted its sentiment toward tighter controls. The Illinois Farm Bureau, biggest in the nation, voted for an unprecedented plan of compulsory acreage retirement, a sort of unsubsidized soil bank, plus a subsidy-in-kind scheme that would hand out...
The Spark. Last week, as the institute welcomed foreign and domestic experts to its fourth annual convention of specialists on Nazi Germany, one of the prime topics on everyone's tongue was a question that the world believed answered long ago: Who set the Reichstag fire?
Like architects the world over, Tange also eyed with excitement the new world of space-spanning shells. For Ehime's convention hall, he tried a low, curving shell set with 133 ceiling lights (see color); for Shizuoka, he designed a hyperbolic paraboloid auditorium that holds an audience of 5...