Word: conventioners
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When Joseph P. Kennedy II, the Democratic candidate for the 8th congressional district, addressed an AFL-CIO convention in Boston on Thursday, one union official urged members not to just "lay back" as the general election drew near.
Osborn's instructions to convention-goers sum up the Kennedy campaign's approach to the November general election. In one of the nation's most heavily Democratic districts, Kennedy's post-primary campaign looks nothing like a horserace.
"When he came to the Pudding, we were surprised, he was thought of as a Loeb type," says president of Pudding Theatricals W. Nicholas Weir '87. "But when he got involved in the Pudding he fit in well and really enjoyed it. Then when he went on to writing scripts...
Edmonds became the first Black woman to deliver the seconding speech for a presidential candidate in 1956, endorsing Dwight D. Eishenhower at the Republican National Convention.
For more than two decades the Mafia managed to keep its board of directors hidden from the outside world, until November 1957, when police staged a celebrated raid on a national mobsters' convention in Apalachin, N.Y. In 1963 former Mafia Soldier Joseph Valachi told a Senate investigating subcommittee all about...