Word: ticket
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Reprisal. In Tacoma, Wash., Traffic Patrolman U. Drivewell slapped a ticket on Army Sergeant I. Walk...
...Guildhall he got entangled in the long scroll of a speech he was reading. The audience, undisciplined by Shinto, found it hard to suppress a titter. Hirohito took a subway ride, incognito, and his entourage was horrified when a brusque Cockney conductor berated him for having no ticket...
Fiorello H. LaGuardia, 62, for twelve years New York City's loud and able mayor, finally announced that he did not choose to run for a fourth term-despite his personal conviction that he could "run on a laundry ticket and beat these political bums any time" (in the words of the late Al Smith...
...Louisville, where the first Saturday of May is known as Derby Day, 6,500 racing diehards elbowed their way to bet ting windows and wagered $11,483. The winner, Broken Spring, paid $2.50 on a 50? ticket for waddling home in 1:20 3/5 for the 20-foot course. It was the first and perhaps only Kentucky Turtle Derby. (At nearby Churchill Downs, 30 Derby candidates were in training for a hoped-for June 2 running of the 71st Kentucky classic...
Lamont has revealed that in his capacity as chairman of finances for the temporary committee of the Class of 1948 he will not attempt unduly to restrict or monopolize control of the ticket sales. In a statement made to the SERVICE NEWS yesterday he disclosed that he will consult freely and will not hesitate to use the facilities which are offered to him by the organization already built up by the 1948 Jubilee Committee...