Word: conventioners
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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During that curious chapter in Occidental imperialism, the Boxer Rebellion, the U. S. dispatched some 2,500 marines and regulars to China to participate in the international loot of Peking. Last week as death and destruction were being visited on China once more a faint echo of China's...
Lifting chunks from the Vandenberg and Butler speeches the V. F. W. adopted an anti-war resolution, calling for mandatory neutrality, withdrawal of U. S. armed forces from foreign soil. The Veterans also requested President Roosevelt to make public his intentions on the Administration's Far Eastern policy. Just...
In Detroit last week assembled more than 200 people united by a common passion-the construction and operation of model railroads with such elaborate attention to detail and conformity to scale that they feel entitled to resent the word "toys." This was the third annual convention of the National Model...
At a concert during the St. Louis convention of the National Association of Negro Musicians appeared venerable Negro Composer William C, Handy, who wrote Memphis Blues and St. Louis Blues. For the latter he was honored with a plaque, but confessed he liked Memphis Blues better. However, he said, "When...
At the 48th annual convention of the National Association of Life Underwriters in Denver last week delegates generally agreed that this rhetorical question by Vice President Alexander E. Patterson of The Penn Mutual Life Insurance Co. struck at the heart of insurance's chief current problem. Major tenet of...