Word: conventioneers
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Teetering on a dilemma was British Prime Minister James Ramsay MacDonald last week. He had been persuaded to address the American Federation of Labor's convention at Toronto. Militant crusader for his Labor party, he faced the militantly non-partisan A. F. of L. Nimbly he kept his verbal...
President Hoover vexed the convention of the American Dental Association at Washington last week by only greeting a few of them (see p. 13).* Also they were cross because they did not get the newspaper publicity which conventioneers expect. Partly that was not their fault. Prime Minister MacDonald's visit to Washington and two sensational stranglings filled Washington papers and clogged national press services. But the dentists themselves were also to blame. Enterprising organizations do not wait for reporters to attend their meetings. Good publicity committees send information, well prepared, to the newspapers. The dentists did not have...
While the convention itself was whirling through its program and politics, Roman Catholic members taxied across Washington to the new Georgetown (Roman Catholic) Dental School and formed, according to the suggestion of Cardinal O'Connell of Boston (TiME, Dec. 24, 1928), the National Guild of St. Apollonia. St. Apollonia...
When they think the stock of their companies is selling too high, conscientious tycoons will often sound a warning. But mum is the traditional word when they deem it is going too cheap. Last week this convention of high finance was crisply broken by potent, unconventional Viscount Rothermere, dynamic chairman...
This is the first revision of the Prayer Book since 1892.* The revisory commission, appointed by the General Convention, is headed by the Rt. Rev. Charles Lewis Slattery, Bishop of Massachusetts, who ranks as a moderate liberal. Rumors that John Pierpont Morgan, Senior Warden of St. John's, Locust...