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A local bill to overhaul disciplinary practices has been shelved as delegates in Annapolis debate broader changes statewide.

“Welcome, welcome to Brooklyn,” the senator sang as each delegate descended from the bus.

The Stalwarts hoped to swarm the convention and force a challenge to the delegate roll.

Shaw put himself right alongside the line and took a minute to shake hands and greet each delegate.

Under the Soviet regime, people preferred to delegate power and decision-making to others—Stalin, for example.

Virginia State Delegate Barbara Comstock is the ur-Republican.

One delegate said that he found fully one third of the men in his wards professing Christians.

A delegate of the Christian Commission sat down to write a letter for him to his wife, to be sent by a flag of truce.

The Tallest Delegate was called smartly to order; he rebelled, but when threatened with the sergeant-at-arms subsided amid jeers.

The delegate from Marion, like the mysterious person from Pulaski, was a stranger to state conventions.

The next morning the ejected delegate sailed for London, but soon went to Paris where he helped to form radical groups.