Word: ticket
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...outlived its days of greatness (it is now seventh in circulation among Manhattan's nine dailies) before many of its present readers were old enough to vote the straight Republican ticket. Today's Sun editorials, like last week's on Truman, are plotted by Speed, General Manager Edwin S. Friendly and James Craig, chief editorial writer. Young (35) President-Publisher Thomas Dewart, who inherited the paper, sits in at times. There is little argument at their conferences. "We all think alike, so it's easy," says Keats Speed...
...back to the Republican fold. Wisconsin's old line G.O.P. stalwarts cried that he was just a New Deal wolf in ersatz wool. Republican State Chairman Tom Coleman began stringing barbed wire at the political water holes, vowed to keep the last of the LaFollettes off the G.O.P. ticket...
...events in years: England's world-famous Old Vic was arriving for six weeks of repertory, with such topnotchers in its cast as Laurence Olivier (TIME, April 8) and Ralph Richardson (TIME, Dec. 31). On the morning last month when the box office first opened, double lines of ticket buyers stretched for blocks; and by the evening last week when the first curtain rose on Henry IV, Part I, the advance sale had reached nearly...
...welfare fund was settled in principle; all "that remained was to write the ticket, which the Hon. John Lewis and Mr. O'Neill would proceed to do. The President wanted the contract written in not more than 'five days. Did Lewis think that was possible...
...London's Euston and King's Cross Stations, clocks which have long been set a few minutes fast, to give suburbanite season-ticket-holders (commuters) a margin of safety, were suddenly set right. Commented the approving Manchester Guardian: ". . .A time addict . . . must either go on increasing the dose by putting his watch still farther forward or admit that his existing ration no longer produces the desired effect...