Word: conventioneering
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: during 1950-1959
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
New York. Philanthropist Nelson Rockefeller, 49, announced his candidacy for the Republican gubernatorial nomination, thereby throwing the gauntlet to GOPolitician Len Hall, ex-National Committee chairman, who had announced earlier, had been hoping for a clear field for the August G.O.P. convention. Rockefeller, who turned down pleas that he run...
North Dakota. Ailing, cantankerous Senator William L. Langer, 71, was resoundingly renominated in the Republican primary. Last March the Republican convention dumped Wild Bill because he had been a fairly consistent Democratic voter in the Senate, chose instead devoted Party Hack Lieutenant Governor Clyde Duffy, 67, to run for Langer...
In 1940 the officials at Parker-Young Co., where Adams worked, decided that he ought to run for the state legislature. Republican Adams ran, served two terms, then got himself elected to Congress. Committed to politics, he returned to New Hampshire after his single term in Washington and struck out...
Helicopters & Nudists. Though he is far from making the annual $420,000 needed to keep Woburn up, the duke plans a motel and trailer park, will stage a tractor race with the Marquess of Bath in July, will even entertain a convention of nudists in August ("Well, why not?"). For...
Making sure that U.S. newspapers noticed their annual convention in Portland next month, veterans of the island-hopping 41st Infantry Division issued a loud invitation to an old Pacific pal: Mrs. Iva Toguri D' Aquino, better known as the languid-toned Axis platter-puss, Tokyo Rose. Unperturbed by the...