Word: ticket
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...psychology at Washington & Lee. Anything but academic will be the campaign because each of these schoolmen will personify a side of a question as large as the political South: Can the Republican party hold or extend locally the gains it made nationally last year when Democrats deserted their ticket...
Last week regular Virginia Democrats-i.e., those who supported their presidential ticket and lost the State to the G. O. P.-held their primary, chose as their candidate Prof. John Garland Pollard of William & Mary. Polling five-sevenths of the 140,000 votes cast, he far outran two rivals, who, for a united Democracy, immediately pledged him their support. The primary campaign had been mild and lulling. No bad feeling was permitted to creep in. Democratic ranks were closed simultaneously with the polls...
...Paul Shoup was a Southern Pacific ticket agent and freight clerk; at 31 he was assistant general freight agent with headquarters at Portland. Then (1906) came the San Francisco fire and with this first great emergency his first great opportunity. For the late great E. H. Harriman arrived in San Francisco in the wake of the fire and Mr. Shoup assisted him in relief work. So helpful was Mr. Shoup that there is a popular fable that he was a Harriman protege. It was, however, during the Southern Pacific's post-Harriman period that Mr. Shoup really rose...
...ticket-taker, Vincent Pecha was well thought of in his own country. To protest his arrest, Czechoslovak officials halted the Budapest-Kassa train service. Not to be outdone, Hungarian vacationists left Czechoslovak resorts, cancelled reservations at Tatra and Karlsbad, prepared to drink their August sulphur water in Germany instead. Prague newspapers cried for further reprisals to obtain the release of Pecha, talked headily of war. Hungarian authorities, convinced of Pecha's guilt, did nothing but hold their prisoner, prepared...
When he played football at Dallas College in Oregon, young Dan Poling did not care for liquor. He cared for it still less in 1912 when he ran for the Governorship of Ohio on a Prohibition ticket. Had he been elected he could not have taken office because he was too young (28). But he, a young zealot with the build of a lumberman, was merely propagandizing for his cause. Afterward he became secretary of the famed "Flying Squadron," a Prohibition-boosting committee which in 1914-15 visited and pleaded in each & every state. He enjoys a close Dry friendship...