Word: conventioneering
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Dates: during 1920-1920
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CHICAGO, June 9.--At the end of the second day of the Republican National Convention, "the Old Guard" is firmly in the saddle. Lodge has been confirmed as permanent chairman and the enthusiasm which was lacking on the first day has grown to big proportions. Feeling between the Wood-Johnson...
If the convention leaders can push it through, Lodge's stand on the League of Nations as summed up in his keynote speech and backed by the speech of Chauncey M. Depew, former senator from New York, will be adopted as a campaign issue. Opposition to the convention leaders will...
It has failed, as it was bound to fall. It is unsound in theory, unworkable in practice, and as un American as any political device that has yet been suggested by anybody. This system has invited, indeed has almost compelled, huge expenditures on the part of those who have fallen...
Perhaps the most detrimental misconception in regard to the annual Student Conference is that it is a solely religious or missionary convention; this idea is particularly prevalent this year, due, perhaps, to the influence of the Des Moines Convention. Haunted by the phantom of an overgrown Sunday School picnic, many...
The printer's trade is full of legends of this kind. There is small seat in the border state region, quite non-existent here, unknown as Dunkards. Some years ago the faithful telegraph operator transmitted an account of the convention of that body with an "r" carefully inserted where it...