Word: ticket
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...extraordinary circumstances that even New Yorkers felt like voters in wonderland. For it appeared that 1) when they go to the polls on Nov. 2, they may find no Tammany candidate for mayor, and 2) if there is a Tammany candidate, he may well be found on the Republican ticket...
...Brien was elected but 125,000 angry citizens wrote in McKee's name on the ballot. Next year at the regular election, Tammany backed O'Brien again. Jim Farley, with whom Tammany had been on the outs since Walker's trial, arranged a Recovery ticket headed by McKee. Outraged citizens of all parties united to form a Fusion ticket headed by Fiorello LaGuardia. In the election LaGuardia ran first, O'Brien last. Even Tammany saw that Boss Curry had blundered. He was deposed...
...swarmed around the Democratic National Convention Hall in Philadelphia broadcasting these sentiments. The Party from Franklin Roosevelt down was engaging in a concerted move to sway Governor Herbert Lehman of New York from his intention of retiring, to run again for Governor in order to strengthen the Demo-cratic ticket in New York. The forced draft succeeded after Franklin Roosevelt had sent his old friend Herbert a personal letter urging him to make the race...
Each of the 55,000 ex-sinners last week got a free ticket to his or her home town, a bonus of between 100 and 500 rubles ($20 and $100), and an honorary badge proclaiming the redemption. Next, the Order of Lenin, most exalted of all Soviet decorations, was awarded to 40 of the 404 officials who had acted as jailers and supervisors of the 55,000 during their forced-labor redemption. It was suddenly revealed for the first time that new Vice-Commissar for the Timber Industry Kogan acted as a jailer in the digging of the Baltic-White...
...Montreal, gunmen robbed Canada Bread Co. of $2,700, sped away in an automobile. When a motorcycle policeman started after them, the panicky gunmen threw a bag containing $2,300 of the money into a lane, outdistanced the motorcycle, vanished. The policeman only wanted to give them a ticket for driving through a "stop" sign...