Word: conventioneers
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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A. If the Republican [delegates were apportioned] on the basis of the Republican strength in each area-that is, one man, one vote-then there would have been a totally different picture. But with the weighted voting system that the Republican Party has, where it takes six Republicans [elsewhere] for...
By the end of January, 43 women will have been ordained priests in the Episcopal Church, as authorized by the church's General Convention last September. As for the famed "Philadelphia Eleven " and the four other women who underwent disputed ordinations before the convention, so far eight have arranged...
When it comes to internal politics, the United Auto Workers is the Switzerland of the labor world-no coups, no bareknuckled infighting, just a neat, orderly succession from one leadership to the next. This relatively halcyon condition dates from the late 1940s, when Walter Reuther, the progressive ideologue who headed...
Udall didn't get enough support in Massachusetts to send Champion to the convention, and it looked as if Champion's reentry into real world politics--before he came to Harvard he had worked for Edmund G. Brown, former California governor, and was a two-time delegate to Democratic conventions...
Inter-Varsity does not keep track of mission-minded students once they graduate from college, but it does ask those at its conventions to consider signing commitment cards. Within six months after the 1973 convention, 1,700 students had filed cards stating, "I believe it is God's will...