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Word: conventioners (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1930-1939
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While the high commands of the two great U. S. labor forces were assembled in simultaneous convention last month- A. F. of L. in Denver, C.I.O. in Atlantic City-they agreed in a sudden exchange of insulting telegrams to hold a formal peace conference. Last week the two delegations met...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: LABOR: Road to Peace | 11/8/1937 | See Source »

Mr. Quinn carried out the best traditions of our School in the admirable public statement that he made when he was Lieutenant Governor, as to the reforms that ought to be carried out by the proposed constitutional convention to bring up-to-date the antiquated features of the fundamental law...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Quinn Declares O'Hara No Harvard Man; Chafee Explains Own Position | 11/3/1937 | See Source »

Last week, Farmer Bristow received something that will help him to realize his expectations: At Kansas City, Mo. where 8,000 of the 143,000 U. S. members of the Future Farmers of America gathered to attend their tenth annual convention, biggest excitement of the week was announcing the name...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: FARMERS: Human Ingenuity | 11/1/1937 | See Source »

In the A. B. A., unit bankers are numerically tops, but financially they yield to the big city banking chains. In convention at San Francisco last year some unit bankers talked about withdrawing from the A.B.A. unless given more say in its management and announced they would demand a change...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Business & Finance: Canapes and Compromise | 10/25/1937 | See Source »

Said Benjamin Franklin: "Mechanical thrift for a mechanical age is an essential. The best safeguard for national investments is a nation of investment-minded people. At present, the opportunities for thrift are restricted by the time factor." He was speaking to the Manhattan convention of the Thrift and Security Foundation...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: People, Oct. 25, 1937 | 10/25/1937 | See Source »

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