Word: ticket
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Goodyear is opinionated, poker-playing Paul W. Litchfield, who has tough Steelmaster Tom Girdler on his board. Litchfield is a great dirigible booster, a chum of Germany's Zeppeliner Dr. Hugo Eckener. In 1936 he wanted to nominate Colonel Charles A. Lindbergh for Vice President on the Republican ticket. Last spring he urged the U. S. to barter (as it soon did) surplus cotton for a stockpile of rubber which a war would shut...
Forty other Senators sat in the chamber, grimly set on stiff-arming everything that might slow up adjournment. And between his afternoon naps in the cloakroom they had the support of Vice President Garner, who had a ticket to Texas in his wallet...
...Heifetz, Heifetz plays Saint-Saëns' Introduction and Rondo Capriccioso one night at Carnegie Hall. In the audience is a slum boy (Gene Reynolds), who found a ticket in the lobby, failed to sell it to anyone at the door. Heifetz' fiddle stirs in this embryonic cutpurse the will to resume his own studies on the violin. When the charitable music school which takes him in finds itself in an understandable financial jam, Heifetz is touched for a $5 bill, promises to attend the school's concert if he can. Although making him keep this amiable...
...Offered a bargain week-end ticket giving $2.25 worth of admission, food and entertainment for $1 to adults, 50? to children...
...Give the black Cardinal a one-way ticket to Dachau!" (Naziconcentration camp...