Word: convening
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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That on five continents, amateur radio operators were tuning up their sets to participate in history's first world amateur radio conven tion, an event proposed by South Africans and held last week from the General Electric Co.'s station at Schenectady...
...World Advertising Conven- tion in London, President O. C. Harn of the Audit Bureau of Circulations (touchstone of the publishing business) reminded his hearers of un mot credited to Stanley Clague of Chicago, also prominent in the A. B. C. Mr. Clague once saluted advertising as "the Fifth Estate" of contemporary society, recalling a salutation of Edmund Burke, famed English orator, who styled the Press "a Fourth Estate," more powerful than the three recognized estates of England in his day-the lords temporal, the lords spiritual, the Commons...