Word: conventioneers
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Ambassador Hugh Simons Gibson, representing President Herbert Clark Hoover, smiled and said nothing. Baron Cushendun of Great Britain frowned in silence. Outside the Commission room they both expressed themselves to correspondents in scathing terms, though "not for publication." The plan was not worthy of criticism or consideration, they indicated, because...
A convention is usually an occasion upon which tycoons who are not orators deliver speeches prepared for them by secretaries who are not writers. This handicap, coupled with the further hazard that convention speeches are generally highly conventional, tends to throw the value of a convention upon the personal contacts...
The Convention opened with a few well Hoover-chosen words from Washington; then came many another greeting radioed from absent speakers in distant lands, on distant seas. During the long-distance conversations there was heard the loud popping of a champagne cork. No illegal pop was popped, however, as the...
London stirred at the prospect of seeing and hearing this forthright man, so boldly histrionic on the outside, so warm, gentle, shrewd on the inside. The Kansas City Convention had refused to renominate him as Vice President only to have President Hoover recognize his worth in this highest diplomatic appointment...
Last week's N. C. E. meeting was broadly devoted to "education and leisure." Said Major Fred J. Ney, N. C. E. executive secretary, prime mover of the convention: "The real purpose of this conference ... is to develop a keener appreciation-of the educational problems common to the whole...