Word: conventioneers
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Carter's first stop was his most important: the United Auto Workers' annual convention, in Los Angeles, where he made a speech to 6,000 delegates, alternates and guests. The delegates had gathered to elect Douglas Fraser to succeed retiring President Leonard Woodcock, the Administration's choice...
Last week in New York, the 138 delegates to the first annual convention of the newly formed Newsletter Association of America did agree, however, that their business is flourishing, readers are willing to pay ever higher subscription prices and nearly everyone is getting into the act. Out-of-work political...
With kilt-clad bagpipers wheezing Scotland the Brave in a cavernous hall filled with cheering, dancing and festive hugging, the scene might well have been a nationalist celebration in Edinburgh. But the hoopla last week was in Los Angeles, where Scottish-born Douglas Fraser, 60, assumed the presidency of the...
Fraser will have quite a few things to work on too. For instance, he has pledged to continue the union's drive for a four-day work week. On another matter that once seemed equally important -reaffiliation with the AFL-CIO, from which Reuther defected in 1968-Fraser'...
Ravenal's script and David Zippel's lyrics litter the biblical myth of creation with the world of cliches that has since accumulated around the lives of men and women. The primeval couple of this musical are jaded about the facts of life before they've even had any practice...