Search Details

Word: ticket (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1930-1939
Sort By: most recent first (reverse)


Usage:

...Kenneth Simpson, the one Republican leader who, all the time that Uncle Bim was really believed to be washed up, was actually making headway in Manhattan. To him was due large credit for the final smashing to Tammany last year with the Fusion ticket, led by explosive, progressive Fiorello LaGuardia. It was Kenneth Simpson who groomed the advertising profession's gift to politics, Representative Bruce Barton. And Simpson it was who had so very nearly overturned the strong, widely respected regime of Governor Herbert Lehman with the G. O. P.'s most dazzling rookie of the decade, District...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: POLITICAL NOTES: Battle of Hastings | 12/12/1938 | See Source »

...Chicago, the city's schoolteachers, various racial groups, the Lawyers' Guild, social workers like Miss Charlotte Carr, head of Hull House, were foremost in the draft-Ickes drive. They want to smash the celebrated Nash-Kelly machine. If New York City smashed Tammany with a Fusion ticket led by Fiorello LaGuardia, why couldn't Chicago do likewise under an old Bull-Mooser, a New Dealer, a grand-scale benefactor of Chicago like Harold Ickes? From his PWA the city has received $60,000,000 for a new sewer system, $8,000,000 (last week) for housing...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: National Affairs: Mr. Ickes' Exit? | 12/12/1938 | See Source »

Much in the manner of dance ticket sales, cooperating members of the House Committees will be stationed at the entrances to the dining halls to secure signatures in a "Book for Tolerance," and collect the money pledged in this manner...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Refugee Committee Plans Direct Soliciting for Fund | 11/23/1938 | See Source »

...ticket covering the six films will be $1.50; for a single presentation, 35 cents. Tickets may be purchased at the Holyoke Bookshop, 19 Dunster Street...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: SERIES OF SIX MOVIE CLASSICS TO BE SHOWN | 11/16/1938 | See Source »

...John Hamilton John Janson soon received the $1,000 grand first prize. The Republican bigwigs were particularly pleased to have him win because a few weeks ago he had made stump speeches supporting his father, Harold J. Janson, as a candidate for Judge of Maricopa County on the Democratic ticket. Father Harold lost in the primary...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: POLITICAL NOTES: Arizona Kid | 11/14/1938 | See Source »

Previous | 4 | 5 | 6 | 7 | 8 | 9 | 10 | 11 | 12 | 13 | 14 | 15 | 16 | 17 | 18 | 19 | 20 | 21 | 22 | 23 | 24 | Next