Word: conventioners
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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As the convention's versatile band played the theme from New York, New York, the slender woman stepped with poise into the hall's glaring lights to accept the historic nomination and one of the emotional convention's most spirited ovations. Once again the faces of delegates...
Months of strain within the party-the bitter primary fights, the wrenching divisions between blacks and Jews, the philosophical struggles between old-style liberals and neoliberals-seemed to fade in that joyous, convention-ending tableau. Democrats being Democrats, however, at least some of those strains are likely to come back...
It was 20 years for Helen Williams, a founder of 9 to 5, the National Association of Working Women. It was 13 years for Jane Campbell, candidate for the Ohio legislature and former ERAmerica. She passed around champagne as the Ferraro nominating speeches ended, while across the aisle Texas women...
"I remember the '64 convention," said Frances Humphrey Howard, who worked with Eleanor Roosevelt during the war. "Women were told to scamper. My own brother Hubert was the nominee, and I was told to get lost. Today a great partnership is occurring." Jane McMichael, legislative director for the American...
Last Thursday, Frances ("Sissy") Farenthold, the former Texas state representative who won 404 votes as a vice-presidential convention nominee in 1972, stood on the convention floor in San Francisco looking up at Ferraro and suddenly remembered something she had repressed for twelve years: "They didn't want me...