Word: conventioners
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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But politics had only a self-conscious interest for the country mailmen. As Civil Servants they were more interested in swapping notes on how to give "Service with a Smile" (their Association's motto) ; in swapping routes (a man from Maine exchanging with an Arizonian if their local postmasters...
"The thing that we knew would happen is happening," crowed Laborman Green, meeting with other A.F.of L. bigwigs in executive session in Atlantic City to prepare for the Federation's convention in Houston next month. Since the breakdown of C.I.O.-A.F. of L. peace negotiations last winter, William Green...
When Thomas H. Leary, special Cambridge police officer, returned from his vacation, he was alarmed to find that a practical joker had field papers for him as a candidate for delegate to the Democratic state convention.
At week's end. President Davis was re-elected to a third term, beating Chicago's vivacious Lillian Herstein, 336 to 274. Well pleased at the convention's harmony, the teachers' president had other reasons for celebration. A free lance since he was fired from Yale...
Said Dr. Dunlap: "Women . . . seem less abject in their obedience to foolish laws than are men. ... It was once against rigid convention for women to expose their legs in public. . . ."