Word: ticket
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Klan and the Anti-Saloon League are twin calamities working for the election of the Republican national ticket. Their practices are intolerable. Their intolerance is disgraceful. They have exhibited some of the meanest motives which ever had a place in American politics. What they offer as patriotism and public morality has protected or promoted some of the worst corruption...
...election, Governor Smith remembered something. "All during this campaign," he said, "I have not had an opportunity to say something that I want to say now that I am home, and that is to extend congratulations, great good wishes and heartfelt gratitude to my running mate on the ticket, Joe Robinson of Arkansas. He is a man of extraordinary ability, great capacity and a man of wonderful experience. He has used every bit of the last six weeks working night and day in the interest of the success of the Democratic ticket...
...McCormick cordially dislikes and thoroughly scorns, against whom she will doubtless campaign when he seeks re-election two years hence, but who had to put up with her this year for party reasons. Forgetting her anti-Hoover crusade at Kansas City, she worked as hard for the National ticket as for herself. Blooded stock, intellectual journalists, Far Western spaces and cultivated seclusion are Mrs. McCormick's interests outside of politics...
...name of Alfred Emanuel Smith loomed mightier than ever last week. Not only was he elected Governor of New York for the fourth time by a plurality of some 250,000 votes, not only did he sweep a large part of the Democratic ticket into office with him, but he established himself as the most mentionable personality in his party until the 1928 presidential nomination is settled." Thus reported TIME, after the November elections of 1926. In 1928, a Democrat again became Governor of New York despite a national Republican landslide (as Smith had done in 1924). The victor...
...pose was to give Senator Shipstead. Farmer-Laborite, a clear field against a Re publican opponent. In Wisconsin, it was to give Senator LaFollette, Progressive Re publican, a clear field against an upstart "regular" Republican. The Hons. Shipstead and LaFollette reciprocated these courtesies by helping the Democratic na tional ticket...