Word: conventioners
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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So thick were war spectres in committee meetings that the pension ghost could hardly edge in. Chief concerns of the convention were strict neutrality and preparedness. Officially the embargo fight was left to Congress, though a random poll of 423 Legionnaires showed that 66% were opposed to the act as...
Last fortnight the Lancet confidently asserted that British nerves were now strong enough and British planes good enough to make drink unnecessary. "During the war of 1914-1918," said the editor, "heavy drinking became almost a convention among flying men, and this convention lingered afterwards. It had arisen at a...
U. S. hairdressers were hopping mad. When Mab Wilson, beauty editor of Vogue, addressed the New York State Hairdressers and Cosmetologists' convention last week on coiffure trends, her audience was fit to be tied. Miss Wilson actually appeared in a vivid green pillbox hat, her hair lushly snooded.
Next day Premier Mitchell Frederick Hepburn of Ontario asked the Ottawa Government to order flags flown at half-mast for Margaret Hayworth, asserted that the "world's jury" had found Adolf Hitler guilty of the child's murder. Dr. Richard L. Jenkins, of Warwick, N. Y., returning from...
Such was the experiment described by Dr. Urey last week at a convention of the American Chemical Society in Boston. Another highlight of the meeting: