Word: vention
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...that there was surprisingly little disagreement between Hamilton and his coauthors, Madison and Jay. He writes: "The tough yet not despairing political theory that runs through Hamilton's 50-odd contributions is the same that carried him through his mature life." At New York's ratification con vention, it was Hamilton's charming, persuasive leadership that guided a pro-constitutional minority (19 of 46 delegates) "from the likelihood of defeat through the near certainty of stalemate to the actuality of victory...
Lodge, who had been a candidate for Governor, decided to try for the Senate instead - but refused to get out and work for it. Said he to a friend before the con vention: "I just can't go out and shake Lodge, people's and hands I'd and like say your 'I'm vote.' It John Davis would be insulting to them. They know who I am." Far from aloof was Horace Seely-Brown Jr., 54, a hulking, aggressive six-term Congressman from Connecticut's agricultural eastern Second District. Seely-Brown...