Word: ticket
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...light primary Democrats polled a higher vote: 324,000 to 299,000. Both parties were torn by internal dissension; both now have a hot campaigner at the top of the ticket. Bob Hannegan and Harry Truman are sure to pour in all the money and speakers necessary for a thumping campaign; the Republicans likewise. (One reason for Tom Dewey's Governors' meeting in St. Louis was to pep up the Missouri G.O.P.) If Missouri is any barometer, and it has been a true one in the past 40 years, the 1944 Presidential election will be the closest since...
Third-Act Miracle. Playwright Anderson & Co. believe they can still beat Ham Fish in the finals, next November, but their plans are as confusing as the unravelings of a fifth-rate play. Candidate Bennet, who lost on the Republican ticket last week, will run in November on a party ticket of his own-the Good Government Party, with the endorsements of the Democrats and the American Labor Party. (If elected, he has vowed to serve as a Republican.) To accomplish this, Lawyer Bennet must pull a better third-act miracle than any Playwright Anderson ever carried off on the stage...
Harry & Tom. In 1934 Boss Tom Pendergast, the corrupt Kansas City politico, was looking for a respectable name to sweeten up the noisome Pendergast ticket. Harry Truman, a likable plodder, had lived a clean life: he did not smoke, and did not like his womenfolk to smoke; he was a high Mason; he had married the girl he went to Sunday School with; he had been a World War I hero (an artillery captain, he saved his panicky battery from a German trap in the St. Mihiel fighting). He was a farm boy become county judge, with friends...
...saying that people had been streaming in to say how fierce the opposition to Wallace was. The President added that he merely wanted to tell Henry the situation. Henry Wallace replied that the Wallace detractors were telling the President lies, that he was actually an asset to the ticket. The two agreed to lunch the next...
...mayors of Cambridge and Lowell, and the State Commissioner of Public Works, to jail. (The mayor of Marlboro, another Bradford target, killed himself.) Bradford was re-elected with the biggest majority in Middlesex history (he had twice the lead of his fellow blueblood, Governor Leverett Saltonstall, who headed the ticket...