Word: conventioners
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Although the 48 State constitutions generally resemble their venerable counterpart, one major difference is that most are considerably shorter-lived. Three-quarters of the State constitutions provide for conventions at the behest of their constituents, making the average age of a State constitution between 20 and 25 years. New Hampshire...
The Republicans, with 91 delegates, elected as President Republican Chief Judge Frederick Evan Crane of the State Court of Appeals. To strike the proper non-partisan keynote, the convention then unanimously elected as Honorary President happy Democrat Alfred Emanuel Smith, a veteran of the 1915 convention. After a learned speech...
WASHINGTON--John L. Lewis today unleashed a double-barrelled attack against the administration, flailing President Roosevelt for not taking a more adamant stand on the necessity of a wage-hour bill and charging many Federal agencies are anti-labor. Later he revealed that the Committee of Industrial Organization will hold...
Last week John L. Lewis and his political pragmatists in Pennsylvania adopted a third course which has been regarded with equal indifference by advocates of the first two: bidding for control of the Democratic Party by offering their own slate in the primaries. Gathered in Harrisburg for its first convention...
Uselessly, the delegates, representing an overwhelming majority of Pennsylvania labor, invited A. F. of L. to do likewise. For the convention itself was a measure of how deep and bitter Labor's division had become. Last month, when William Green ordered the Pennsylvania Federation of Labor to purge itself...