Word: conventioners
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Commemorating the 150th anniversary of the Constitutional Convention of 1787, the sessions of the Student Constitutional Convention will open tomorrow to reconsider the Constitution in the light of modern American social and economic organization.
Meetings of the convention will go on for the rest of the week following the opening meeting, the group being divided up into six committees.
In St. Louis, Perpetual King Jeff Davis opened the 29th annual "greatest and best" convention of the Hoboes of America. In a grimy hall in the flophouse district, 100 delegates heard greetings from Ohio's Representative Herbert S. ("Brother Bo") Bigelow, New York's Senator Royal S. Copeland...
Laymen who hear scientists indulging in polysyllabic shop talk are likely to regard them as cloistered visionaries who pay scant attention to what is going on in the workaday world. Last week, however, a bevy of savants approaching Chapel Hill, N. C., showed that they at least glance at the...
I traveled from Monte-Carlo to Genova with a carload of flower-girls and dancers from Budapest. They all were in their native costumes where at Cannes they took part in the annual flower festival. Now, full of song and pranks, they were going back to their romantic Budapest. At...