Word: conventionalized
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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¶To 10,000 Italian-American delegates to the Sons of Italy convention in San Francisco, Stefano Miele (Supreme Venerable of the society) exclaimed: "Let us thank God that America is neutral."
But the vast majority of U. S. churchmen were, for the time being at least keeping God out of it. The president of the Federal Council of Churches plumped for strict neutrality. So did Dr. Harry Emerson Fosdick, Father Coughlin, the National Baptist Convention (Negro). The National Council of Methodist...
Bilbo's man Johnson won by a solid margin, 162,688-to-136,264. Pat Harrison, unembarrassed by jibes at his constant switching, was now embarrassed in the way a politician best understands it. Apparently faded were his hopes of appearing at the 1940 Democratic National Convention in a...
Among the 313 U. S. passengers were persons from 20 States: six New Jerseyites, a party of ten college girls mostly from Texas, three geneticists returning from a convention in Edinburgh, four U. S. aircraft engineers who had been assembling U. S. planes for Britain. The sister (Maurine) and brother...
Faced with these dangers, the northern neutrals last week hastened to do two things: 1) declare their neutrality: 2) prepare for the worst. Full mobilization was ordered in The Netherlands, Belgium, Switzerland and Denmark, partial mobilization in Norway and Sweden. Luxembourg, which has no army, increased its gendarmerie and customs...