Word: ticket
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Rush Begins. Naturally there was a certain amount of rushing to the Dewey bandwagon. To many it looked like Dewey on the first ballot-a nomination received absolutely on his own terms, and without any commitments. The favorite ticket: Dewey and California's Governor Earl Warren...
...Court's decision. They would keep after him; this was an issue not lightly to be evaded, or easily stalled off. In Dallas, a Negro Baptist preacher filed as a candidate for the Dallas County school board. His alarmed white opponents used paid newspaper ads : "Vote the white ticket straight." In South Carolina, a Negro Citizens Committee raised more than $300,000 to fight for their voting rights in court. Every where below the Mason-Dixon line, Negroes were demanding their political rights, or were beginning to think seriously about their rights...
What most annoyed Lone-Dissenter Justice Owen Roberts was a Court which keeps changing its mind. Said he: Supreme Court decisions are beginning to look like "a restricted railroad ticket, good for this day and train only...
...English Genius." A small, bald, mustached man, General Fuller was retired from the British Army in 1933 for a sharp (and justified) cry for reforms in army mechanizations. Later, he was a candidate for Parliament on Sir Oswald Mosley's Fascist ticket. He argued the Axis case, appeared with a glib Briton named William Joyce, who became better known as "Lord Haw Haw" (see cut) when England faced destruction. On the war's eve, Hitler invited General Fuller to his birthday celebration. (Said Radio Berlin: ". . . The English genius...
...Army-Navy Officers Club is giving a dance tomorrow evening at the Hotel Statler. Officers bringing a lady guest must have a guest ticket--available at the club...