All 34 Uses of
convention
in
Profiles in Courage
- …he stood up against powerful interests in Massachusetts to fight for the St. Lawrence Seaway, when he fought for a labor reform act in 1959, when he entered the West Virginia primary in 1960, when he debated Lyndon Johnson at the Democratic Convention in Los Angeles with no advance notice, when he took the blame completely on himself for the failure at the Bay of Pigs, when he fought the steel companies, when he stood up at Berlin in 1961 and then again in 1962 for the freedom of that…†
Chpt Frwd.
- In this way, said Delegate John Dickinson to the Constitutional Convention, the Senate would "consist of the most distinguished characters, distinguished for their rank in life and their weight of property, and bearing as strong a likeness to the British House of Lords as possible."†
Chpt 1.0
- Calhoun believed that the Constitutional Convention had not nationalized our government; that the sovereign states still retained "the right of judging …. when the Congress encroached upon the individual state's power and liberty.†
Chpt 2.0 *
- A preliminary convention of Southerners, also instigated by Calhoun, urged a full-scale convention of the South at Nashville for June of that fateful year to popularize the idea of dissolution.†
Chpt 2.3
- A preliminary convention of Southerners, also instigated by Calhoun, urged a full-scale convention of the South at Nashville for June of that fateful year to popularize the idea of dissolution.†
Chpt 2.3
- During the critical month preceding Webster's speech, six Southern states, each to secede ten years later, approved the aims of the Nashville Convention and appointed delegates.†
Chpt 2.3
- We have no doubt the Nashville Convention will be held and that the leading purpose of its authors is the separation of the slave states …. with the formation of an independent confederacy.†
Chpt 2.3
- As Senator Winthrop remarked, Webster's speech had "disarmed and quieted the South [and] knocked the Nashville Convention into a cocked hat.†
Chpt 2.3
- And the 1852 Whig Convention followed exactly this course.†
Chpt 2.3
- After the procompromise vote had been divided for fifty-two ballots between Webster and President Fillmore, the convention turned to the popular General Winfield Scott.†
Chpt 2.3
- His opponents charged that Benton told the 1844 Democratic National Convention, as it prepared to abandon Van Buren, that he would "see the Democratic party sink 50 fathoms deep into the middle of hell fire before I will give one inch with Mr. Van Buren.†
Chpt 2.4
- And finally, when in 1848 the slavery issue split the Democratic party at its convention, Benton, deploring the split and denying the importance of the issue, refused to support either camp actively.†
Chpt 2.4
- Would he initiate a convention of all Missouri Democrats to settle his differences with the proslavery camp?†
Chpt 2.4
- "I would sooner," he thundered, "sit in council with the six thousand dead who have died of cholera in St. Louis than go into convention with such a gang of scamps!"†
Chpt 2.4
- The Democratic State Convention denounced the great warrior as "not in accordance with the sentiments of the Democracy of Texas."†
Chpt 2.5
- But the wounds of his election were not healed; and when the name of Sam Houston was proposed by a New Yorker at the Democratic National Convention in 1860 as one that "would sweep the whole country for a great victory," ex-Gov-ernor Runnels, the leader of the Texas delegation, jumped to his feet: "Sir, by God!†
Chpt 2.5
- When South Carolina invited Texas to send delegates to the Southern Convention to protest "assaults upon the institution of slavery and upon the rights of the South," Houston transmitted the communication to the Legislature as a matter of courtesy, but warned in a masterful document: "The Union was intended to be a perpetuity."†
Chpt 2.5
- But the fact that he had received a few unsolicited votes in the Republican Convention as Lincoln's running mate furnished further ammunition to his enemies.†
Chpt 2.5
- "A sentiment of servility," snapped the press; and Governor Houston was shoved aside as a Secession Convention was called.†
Chpt 2.5
- But the Secession Convention leaders, recognized by the Legislature and aided by the desertion of the Union commander in Texas, could not be stopped, and their headlong rush into secession was momentarily disturbed only by the surprise appearance of the Governor they hated but feared.†
Chpt 2.5
- "To those who tell of his wonderful charge up the hill at San Jacinto," said the historian Wharton, "I say it took a thousand times more courage when he stalked into the Secession Convention at Austin and alone defied and awed them."†
Chpt 2.5
- On February 23, Texas voted for secession by a large margin; and on March 2, the anniversary of Houston's birthday and Texan independence, the special convention reassembled at Austin and declared that Texas had seceded.†
Chpt 2.5
- Angry at his insistence that its legal authority had ended, the Convention by a thumping vote of 109 to 2 declared Texas to be a part of the Southern Confederacy, and decreed that all state officers must take the new oath of allegiance on the fourteenth of March.†
Chpt 2.5
- The Governor's secretary merely replied that Governor Houston "did not acknowledge the existence of the Convention and should not regard its action as binding upon him.†
Chpt 2.5
- On March 14, as an eyewitness described it, the Convention hall was "crowded …. electrified with fiery radiations, of men tingling with passion, and glowing and burning with the anticipation of revengeful battle.†
Chpt 2.5
- At the appointed hour, the Convention clerk wasinstructed to call the roll of state officials.†
Chpt 2.5
- It was a trial to rank with all the great trials in history—Charles I before the HighCourt of Justice, Louis XVI before the French Convention, and Warren Hastings before the House of Lords.†
Chpt 3.6
- A Republican convention in Chicago had resolved "That any Senator elected by the votes of Union Republicans, who at this time blenches and betrays, is infamous and should be dishonored and execrated while this free government endures."†
Chpt 3.6
- Having lost all hope thatthe South could obtain justice in the Federal Union, he walked out of the Democratic Convention in Charleston with Jefferson Davis, helping to break still another link in the chain of Union.†
Chpt 3.7
- And shortly thereafter, the Yazoo Democratic County Convention adopted a resolution that their legislators should "vote for him and work for him, first, last, and all the time, as the choice of this people for United States Senator."†
Chpt 3.7
- With an oath he rejected the suggestion that he accept a position as Herbert Hoover's running mate, and he attackedthe Republican Convention's platform and the methods by which it had selected its nominees.†
Chpt 4.8
- A delegate who had supported Norris for President at the Republican Convention told the press that Norris "does not carry my political conscience in his vest pocket.†
Chpt 4.8
- The New York Governor, he said, had risen above the dictates of Tammany, while the techniques employed by the Republican Convention would "make Tammany Hall appear as a white-robed saint."†
Chpt 4.8
- On the eve of the 1924 Democratic Convention, the advisers of Senator Oscar W. Underwood of.†
Chpt 4.10
Definition:
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(convention as in: teacher's convention) a large conference or meeting