Word: conventioneers
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Over the White House lawns one day last week swarmed hundreds of dentists, delegates to the American Dental Convention at Washington (see p. 18). Not to risk missing a handshaking appointment with the President, they had come early. In the White House, President Hoover was talking with Prime Minister MacDonald...
Negroes from North Carolina, coal miners from Indiana, a detachment from the Chicago Board of Trade, another composed of Oklahoma Indians, a mud-covered dozen of doughboys from Chattanooga (advertising war's discomfort), these and others to the number of 35,000 marched and countermarched last week in Louisville...
The question raised by Los Angeles boosters, trying to get the 1930 convention for their city, was: "Orange juice or beans?" But Boston won, 742 votes to 400.
About 5,000 people in the U. S. claim to be 100 or older. Most of them unintentionally exaggerate, said Louis Dublin, Metropolitan Life Insurance Co. statistician who hastened from the National Safety Council meeting at Chicago last week to the American Public Health Association Convention at Minneapolis. To the...
Of chief interest to each convention were the problems facing that particular industry and tactics to be employed in the future. Thus while the American Bankers' Association mulled over the credit situation, members of American Bakers' Association in Chicago discussed the advisability of having a national doughnut week...