Word: conventioneering
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Among the progress reports heard at the A.M.A. convention:
Morocco: Better. The situation in Morocco, which once threatened to be as bad (bank deposits were down 37% by the end of the first nine months of independence, an estimated 50,000 French have gone back to France), may be recoverable as a result of a Cultural Convention signed last...
¶ In Chicago, the Southern Baptist Convention, which has admitted Negroes to membership for several years, but has not yet allowed a Negro to vote, urged at its annual meeting an end of resistance to racial integration. The convention called on police and the courts to protect the Negro, "irrespective...
Maugham wrote his bestseller during the era of the not-quite-emancipated woman-a time when literary convention prescribed, as the natural consequence of adultery, a cholera epidemic. In The Seventh Sin the epidemic is caused by an American girl (Eleanor Parker) married to a British bacteriologist (Bill Travers) but...
Almost everyone agreed on independence soon-hopefully by 1959. All wanted immediate "Nigerianization" of the local government before independence. But as representatives of a loosely conjoined nation split in a hundred ways by personal, tribal, religious and economic rivalries and jealousies, no two of them went to the conference agreed...