Word: conventioneers
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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That was nothing compared to the fire he kindled as a delegate to the 1948 Democratic National Convention. He became an overnight liberal celebrity when he made a public demand for a strong civil rights plank in the party platform. "The time has arrived," he told the convention, "for the...
It started at Harvard. Karen Nussbaum and Ellen Cassedy, secretaries at the Education School, put out a newsletter in an effort to organize University clerical workers, but the response was discouraging and they gave up. Then at a Women's Action Project convention in Boston in the spring of 1972...
When Jimmy Carter visited New Delhi on New Year's Day, India's most celebrated political leader was conspicuously absent from the receiving line of dignitaries. In a characteristically flamboyant maneuver to steal the presidential show, Indira Gandhi appeared across town to harangue 5,000 people assembled under...
Indeed, not one other political figure of national stature showed up for the breakaway convention in Delhi. Instead, party regulars denounced Mrs. Gandhi's election as preposterous, complaining that her group had illegally appropriated the name of the rightful Congress Party. In swift retaliation, nine members of the party...
Last year the biggest-ever Lions International convention in the U.S. brought more than 40,000 people to the dome for five days. Even when it was not in use, guided tours of the megastructure packed in 200,000 visitors last year at $2.50 a head. The building's...