Word: conventioners
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The energetic Knapps, agriculturalists sponsored by the Southern Baptist Convention, are among the record total of 39,309 U.S. and Canadian Protestants engaged in overseas mission careers. Adding "short-term" workers, who usually put in stints of less than a year, the North American Protestant foreign legion numbers 67,242...
It was vintage Reagan, so much so that many of the passages -- from the ruminations on "we the people," to the need to allow God back into the classroom, to the tale about the "rising sun" on George Washington's chair at the Constitutional Convention -- evoked echoes of classics that...
These strategies were mirrored in two competing drafts of the State of the Union speech. One, written by Presidential Assistant Dennis Thomas, consisted mostly of a laundry list of legislative proposals. The conservatives, led by Speechwriter Anthony Dolan, contributed an unsolicited draft that took a sharply aggressive line: it would...
For financially depressed New Orleans, it was an embarrassment of riches. First the city was notified by the Republican National Committee that it had been selected as the site of the 1988 G.O.P. Convention, a three-day bonanza that should generate $50 million in business. Then Democratic Chairman Paul Kirk...
The catch was that New Orleans had already signed a contract giving the Republicans six weeks of unlimited access to the Superdome before the convention opens on Aug. 15. Since the Democrats are to begin their convention on July 17, the clause prevents New Orleans from being host to both...