Word: conventioners
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The official Church News of Salt Lake City published the letter last month. It was written by Martin Harris, a farmer who lived near Palmyra, N.Y. Harris was Smith's first convert outside the prophet's family. Addressed to a Canandaigua, N.Y., newspaper editor who later joined the sect, the...
Referring to those earlier troubles, Gandhi had assured the All-India Congress Committee, the party's equivalent of a U.S. political convention, at its meeting in New Delhi on May 4 that "no amount of agitation can take away the power given to us by the people." But he warned...
While the overdue welcome home overwhelmed most veterans with its warmth, the parade failed to move some who have been left bitter by years of public indifference. Ex-Marine Jerry White, 35, could not accept it as a thank-you. Said he: "It's more like a political convention or...
And Reynolds also explained why Jackson avoided any direct challenge to Walter F. Mondale in the 1984 Democratic Convention, despite the latter's fear that Jackson might try to split the party. As Reynolds put it, "Jesse just took the high road" on such political issues.
At its apex, the antiwar movement had a certain faddishness to it, acknowledges Dellinger. "It was like going to a football game--you went down to Washington for a demonstration," he says. Dellinger was a defendant in the uproarious Chicago Seven conspiracy trial, charged with trying to incite a riot...