Word: ticket
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Carroll F. Getchell, H.A.A. official, has officially opened the annual season on temporary hirings by the University to handle the trials of intercollegiate football. Ushers and ticket-takers for the Stadium are the operatives in demand this season, Getchell said...
Official application hours for positions as ticket-takers are from 7 to 9 o'clock in the evening Tuesday, Wednesday, and Thursday of next week; while ushers should apply between 2:30 and 5 o'clock in the afternoon tomorrow, Tuesday, Wednesday, or Thursday. Men interested in either post should come to the Quincy Street entrance of the Athletic Association at the designated hours...
...York's political campaign began suddenly and fiercely last week, the day after the nominating conventions. Tom Dewey, renominated for Governor by the G.O.P., came out swinging at the Democratic ticket, linking it with the red-rimmed American Labor Party and the C.I.O.'s Political Action Committee. Cried Prosecutor Tom: the A.L.P. is "dominated by the left-wing line of a foreign power." A slambang, right-v.-left battle was on, and both parties welcomed...
...nominated for Governor and 68-year-old Herbert H. Lehman, ex-Governor and ex-director of UNRRA, for Senator. That had been settled long ago. The problems facing the bosses were 1) how to sew up A.L.P. support and 2) add at least one fresh face to the ticket...
Soon the situation was well out of hand. Mobs fought with firemen and police (ten cops were injured), hurled bottles and bricks through windows, smashed the ticket booth of Scollay Square's Old Howard burlesque house, turned on a fire hose in a downtown movie theater. Women of all ages fled from the streets. Said Police Superintendent Edward W. Fallon: "The worst night in my experience...