Word: conventioners
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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¶ Diplomatic convention provides that when a new Ambassador arrives in Washington, he array himself in a cutaway, pay a formal call at the White House. By mutual agreement, this procedure was dispensed with last week in the case of Dr. Don Leon de Bayle, newly appointed Minister from Nicaragua...
Sitting in solemn convention in Manhattan's Hotel Waldorf-Astoria last week was the "Congress of American Industry," annual session of the National Association of Manufacturers. If the delegates, some 2,000 strong, were not all Business, at least they were a big slice of it, representatives of the...
The minor-league convention was held last fortnight in Milwaukee. Most important news was that Manager Jimmy Dykes of the Chicago White Sox and Manager Mickey Cochrane of the Detroit Tigers had worked a trade: Pitcher Vernon Kennedy, Infielder Tony Piet and Outfielder Dixie Walker of the White Sox for...
Dorothy Thompson's unique invitation was typical of N. A. M.'s painfully self-conscious course in self-improvement, undertaken in its efforts to school itself for political maturity and the national leadership which it felt its members must rightly and inevitably inherit. Lengthening their convention from the...
But in the public mind N.A.M. has always been identified by two consistent policies-high tariff and open shop. In recent years these two have been almost submerged by the rise of a third, if unwritten policy-Anti-New Deal. The high tide of reaction was reached in 1935, when...