Word: conventioneers
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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¶ Odd Fellows at a world convention in Houston, Tex., mourned a 68,176 decrease of membership in 1928, but were consoled when their Grand Sire told them, "President Hoover is an Odd Fellow."
The Crooks' Convention. What would happen if all the criminals in the world were to become unionized and then go on strike ? Novelist-Playwright Arthur Somers Roche demonstrates in three tedious acts of satire, that virtue would no longer be laudable, police and newsmen would be jobless, numerous industries...
After days of furious debate on the Cecil resolution it was considered still too inflammatory to Latin passions to put to vote. To the rescue came. Greece's confident Nicholas Politis, practiced handy man at loosening League pinches. He drafted a compromise resolution which "... confidently hopes the preparatory Disarmament...
Maine's present Governor, William Tudor Gardiner, called "the most popular man in Maine," was largely an innocent bystander in the power export fight. Yet he too was mauled upon election day. He appeared before the G. A. R. convention wearing bandages on hands and wrists. Teddy, a half-grown...
As the first concrete result of the antitariff debate, delegates representing 17 minor nations signed a convention mutually abolishing all customs dues on "hides and bones" after Oct. 1 next.