Word: ticket
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...date of the 1944 Presidential election began to draw too close for such legal hairsplitting, Mr. Hillman had organized the non-labor National Citizens P.A.C. partially as a sort of holding company for campaign funds. This move satisfied the Hillman lawyers that the N.C.P.A.C. could boom the Roosevelt-Truman ticket as much as it liked and remain within: 1) the Hatch Act; 2) the Smith-Connally amendment to the Corrupt Practices...
...poll conducted by the CRIMSON in 1940 reported Harvard as favoring Wendell L. Willkie. The HLU survey, certified by a notary public and covering 82 percent of Harvard and 87 percent of Radcliffe, discovered that 63 percent favored the Roosevelt-Truman ticket. Four percent wrote in Willkie's name for president...
...under which he was obviously laboring crept into his voice. The board conferred, granted him his parole. Then they laid down the terms under which he can keep his freedom when he goes into the world again on Sept. 12, with a suit of clothes, $20 and a railroad ticket to Manhattan's Grand Central Station. The terms: he must not engage in political activity...
Waldman's experiences in the years that followed were part of the tumultuous coming of age of U.S. social consciousness. Elected to the New York Assembly on the Socialist ticket in 1917, he crusaded in vain for social security, free higher education for all, other reforms. Reelected, he was ousted in the Socialist purge of 1920. Later he thrice ran for Governor, became one of the nation's shrewdest labor lawyers...
Curran's political virtues were obvious: his appeal for the normally Democratic Catholic voting group, notably lacking on the State Republican ticket, his Manhattan strength, and his record in the Republican Party. But many a thoughtful Republican wondered whether Curran's best would be enough. Senator Wagner is 67 years old, but he has shaken off the persisting ill health which has checkered his recent years in the Senate with absenteeism. And Bob Wagner is still well-armored by his reputation as the author of early New Deal labor legislation. He has a steady independent following...