Word: ticket
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Whether or not he thrice refused a coronet, George William Norris did not announce last week. But he announced something else. He said he was hopeless of a Third Party ticket this year. He said that the Issue was the Power Trust. He said he favored non-partisan support of "progressive" Congressional candidates this year, regardless of party ticket. He assumed that "nothing new will transpire in the Presidential contest." Hence the thing for "progressives" to do is to increase their balance of power in Congress and as soon as possible amend the Constitution to provide for direct popular election...
...Herbert Clark Hoover telephone twice during the Kansas City convention to George W. Norris of Nebraska, the most Insurgent Republican Senator of them all, and ask him to be Number Two Man on the Hoover ticket? Did Senator Norris refuse, and did Senators Howell of Nebraska and Brookhart of Iowa then call on Senator Norris and beg him to reconsider? And did Senator Norris then refuse a third time? Such were the stories told last week in Omaha by one Mat Greevy and the Omaha World-Herald. Newsgatherers considered the stories so improbable that they did not bother to seek...
Opposing candidates for the nomination had anticipated the "ungraceful act" by promising to support whatever ticket was chosen. Josephus Daniels, Governor Dan Moody of Texas, Governor L. G. Hardman of Georgia and many another solved the problem by saying, simply: "I am a Democrat." Thomas Pryor Gore, the blind, facetious, onetime-Senator from Oklahoma who seconded Reed at Houston, frankly switched to Smith. Even bitter little Senator Simmons of North Carolina turned the other cheek, last week. It was a silent gesture. He did not promise to work actively for Smith. But he pointed to his Democratic record, held...
Nominee Smith, as everyone knows, has repeatedly expressed his unmitigated contempt for Publisher Hearst ever since the latter's newspapers mendaciously blamed Smith for a bad milk situation in Manhattan. In 1922, Smith refused to lead his State ticket until Hearst was withdrawn as candidate for the U. S. Senate. In 1926, when Hearst supported Ogden L. Mills against Smith for the New York governorship, Smith characterized it as "the kiss of death" for Mills. Mills was badly beaten. This year, Hearst has signed editorials praising Hoover and sneering at Smith...
Once every year, ticket agents and freight handlers at the sun-scorched railway stations dotted along the lines of the Northern Pacific shook hands with a rotund little man who climbed briskly down the steps of a private car. Many he knew by name, knew their histories and their troubles. He told them a good railroading yarn, climbed back into...