Word: conventioners
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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One Alliance prod is political action. Last week David Lasser claimed large credit for purging Manhattan's Congressman John J. O'Connor (see p. 72). He cried: "Shall we engage in political activities? My fellow delegates, we are in political activities!'' Whereupon the convention offered its...
Most widely celebrated Massachusetts campaign was that of Patrolman Thomas Leary of Cambridge. Nominated without his knowledge or consent to be a delegate to the Democratic State Convention, barred by police rules from running for office, he campaigned vigorously ("Be wary of Leary") to get himself defeated (TIME, Sept. 26...
Self-styled a "forum for interchanging world experience in all phases of management," last week's convention was held in Washington's capacious Chamber of Commerce building, drew a full complement of U. S. tycoons. But what they had to say along the standard themes of U. S...
Esther Forbes's four novels (O Genteel Lady!, Paradise, etc.) have been full of romantic literary tricks. In spite of this they have been eminently successful in drawing a persuasive picture of colonial New England. Descended from pioneer Massachusetts stock, saturated from childhood with tales of colonial history told...
Catching Curley at the psychological moment when he was writing the speech which he delivered to the Democratic State Convention Saturday afternoon, the Cambridge quintet attempted to persuade the Democratic gubernatorial candidate to take a specific New Deal platform and push it through the Convention.