convention
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Pictures of Spiegel walking the convention floor wearing them were widely mocked on social media on Tuesday.
From Barron's • Jun. 18, 2026
“This convention was one of the most extraordinary events,” she says.
From Los Angeles Times • Jun. 17, 2026
He advocated for representative government based on a constitutional convention.
From The Wall Street Journal • Jun. 10, 2026
That week, downtown Seattle was cordoned off because protestors had taken over the streets surrounding the convention center, and some activists had broken the windows of a Starbucks nearby.
From Salon • Jun. 9, 2026
She never missed an antislavery convention, and she became friends with writers and other social reformers, including Nathaniel Hawthorne, Ralph Waldo Emerson, and Frederick Douglass.
From "Votes for Women!" by Winifred Conkling
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