Word: ticket
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Damning Evidence. In Pasadena, Calif., Motorist John Moore, fresh from a hair-raising ride on the cowcatcher of the speedy Santa Fe Chief, clambered down shaky but unhurt to get a ticket for ignoring the grade-crossing stop signal...
...biggest moment was yet to come. To insure the success of the banquet -held to raise money for the Al Smith Memorial Hospital Fund-every ticket holder had been promised a chance to win a genuine 109-carat diamond...
...A.L.P.A. President David Behncke, a suave, self-assured retired pilot who looks about as radical as any Philadelphia Main Liner. Behind him was the combined strength of some 5,000 similar radicals-reserved, well-dressed citizens who own homes in fashionable suburbs and tend to vote the Republican ticket...
...Washington, Turner's dance arena rocked to the music of Duke Ellington. White Musician Josana Quantian stepped up to the ticket window. The cashier tossed his money back. The arena had been reserved that night for Negroes only...
There were other big-name possibilities for the Democratic ticket. An early effort to get Jimmy Roosevelt to run for Governor failed, but Jimmy would keep his hand in as a member of the Los Angeles County Democratic Central Committee. Colonel Evans Carlson, of raider fame, had an early boom for the Senate, and Democrats were trying to persuade General Joseph Stilwell to run for something. Will Rogers Jr., back from the war and not so sure that he wants his House seat again, thought of trying to unseat State Senator Jack Tenney, head of California's "Little Dies...