Word: conventioners
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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"At Harvard, on the other hand, this tendency to bow to convention and unreasoning College opinion does not exist. Harvard feels that at least where indulgence of the 'play instinct' is concerned, the individual should be given ample opportunity, instruction, and facilities, but that he should make his own decisions...
Notable if not definitive is Editor White's account of how a group of Kansas editors and oilmen who had grown up together ran Alf Landon's pre-convention campaign which began "all hilarious and haphazard, all country town stuff . . . an amiable, neighborly, good-natured Kansas mutual admiration...
Notable, too, is Editor White's intellectual candor: "The temperamental contrast of the parties indicates that Roosevelt is leading his star-eyed cherubim panting into their millennium, while Landon, occasionally jabbing an elbow in the ribs of the Union League boys and with a come-hither grin for agriculture...
By 1932 many U. S. doctors felt sure that cinchophen was primarily responsible for many deaths directly due to yellow atrophy of the liver. This matter was thrashed out last May during the convention of the American Medical Association. There Drs. Walter Lincoln Palmer and Paul Silas Woodall presented conclusive...
If 49 of the most upright and respectable U. S. ministers held a convention and announced that they favor swearing, public surprise would not have been much greater than it was last week when 49 of the safest and most cautious U. S. motorists held a convention and announced that...