Word: madison
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Alice B. Gilbert, Radcliffe '49, is the new Northern New England Regional Chairman of the National Student Association--probably. She was elected at Madison, Wisconsin, after a brief caucus held on Saturday August 28, the last day of the N. S. A. convention...
...satisfaction, at least, the U.S. Communist Party showed last week how to run off a political convention. The 14th national convention since the party's founding in 1919, it began with a mass meeting in Manhattan's Madison Square Garden. The meeting was open to all; 17,000 attended. Then 250 carefully culled-over delegates slipped off to the uptown and plainly bourgeois Riverside Plaza Hotel for the real business...
After Hillman's death they began to move. In September 1946, they staged the Madison Square Garden rally at which Wallace, pleading for peace, denounced U.S. foreign policy...
...from Georgia, had earned about $500,000 in the ring and kept almost none of it. Recently he blew in the last big chunk on a flashy new car, but insisted "I'll be all right." For he was the Golden Boy, who drew more cash customers into Madison Square Garden than any fighter living. He had twice won & lost the lightweight crown. No fighter had ever knocked him down for the full count...
...Show. One enthusiast has estimated that its central terminal area-offices, depots, waiting rooms, plane ramps and parking spaces-will be bigger than eight Yankee Stadiums, five Rose Bowls and six Madison Square Gardens. To keep the passengers happy-and spending-the Authority hopes to build a hotel, movie theaters, a sports arena. By 1958, $170,000,000 will have been spent to make Idlewild a sightseeing center whose income will pay for the chronic deficits of airport operation...