Word: conventioners
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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I was very much interested in reading your account of the Music Industries' Convention held in Chicago (TIME, Aug. 10). As far as I recall you have never reported the meetings we have held in the past.
This year's Senatorial campaign began at Lexington, across the Congaree River from Columbia, on June 9 and rolled on, a county a day, through the west central part of the State. After two weeks an adjournment was taken so that candidates could attend the Democratic National Convention in...
Last June the Democratic National Committeeman from Tennessee, Edward Hull Crump of Memphis, failed to attend the Democratic National Convention. Soon thereafter Tennessee's senior Senator, bumbling old Kenneth McKellar, hotfooted it to Memphis to see Boss Crump, conferred for a week with one of the South's...
C. I. O. refused to put up any formal defense, on the ground that the whole proceeding was illegal. Nevertheless, on the third morning the A. F. of L.'s absent twelfth vice president, David Dubinsky, head of International Ladies' Garment Workers, which belongs to the C. I...
The A. F. of L. can expel member unions only by a two-thirds vote of its membership. The C. I. O. unions have well over one-third the Federation's members. Postponing action to the Convention would therefore be equivalent to conceding victory to John L. Lewis. But...