Word: conventioners
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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All sessions of rich, potent B. R. T.'s quadrennial convention were closed to outsiders including the press. President Whitney forbade the 975 delegates to talk out of meeting, could & would oust any who disobeyed. The few who might have been inclined to do so remembered what happened to...
What happened last week was unique in recent Brotherhood history. To the astonishment and official indignation of the convention Cleveland newspapers published news which Alexander Whitney did not consider fit to print. They got it from Secretary-Treasurer George W. Anderson. He published a pamphlet charging that in the eleven...
Mayor Fiorello LaGuardia of New York has in the course of his checkered career been by turns a Republican and a Fusionite, a standard bearer of the American Labor Party. He is also a good friend of the New Deal and has said he would take the Democratic nomination for...
Shrewd. Germany has no colonies, but an enthusiastic Colonial League. Last week the League held its convention in Vienna. Attending were 25,000 delegates, who roared approval when Reich Colonial Leader General Count Franz von Epp promised that "by incomparably shrewd methods," Herr Hitler would regain the old Imperial colonial...
The self-effacing Farley boomlet began last month with a speech by him at Lynchburg, Va., home of irrevocably anti-Roosevelt old Carter Glass. Mr. Farley there swore fealty once more to Franklin Roosevelt, saluted his humanitarian aims, kept silence regarding the President's economic surrealism. Same week in...