Word: ticket
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...meeting of Republican national and state committeemen in Chicago last fortnight, Earl Warren's was the name most mentioned for second place on the Presidential ticket. As leader of a 50-vote delegation, the governor of the great, growing and no longer so screwy State of California is sure to be a power at the G.O.P. convention. Warren is in the front rank of the group of up& -coming Republican governors who are, in considerable degree, the life of the Party. And he is also nationally significant as the most active political leader of a West which, enormously altered...
...directive from Dr. Grasset, "minister [of health] by the grace of Hitler," says that Frenchmen to be sent to Germany need not be examined carefully as to general health and aptitude-a cursory once-over will do because those who are not very fit can be used as ticket punchers, etc. Le Medicin warns its doctor readers not to let Dr. Grasset lure them into passing any tubercular or mentally deficient people. Once in Germany, they would meet certain death...
Despite "don't travel" pleas by ODT, despite the hoarding of train reservations by ticket scalpers, Florida was swarming with a full 50% more visitors than a year ago and was having its best season since...
When Peter Cooper ran for President, on the Greenback ticket, he got 82,000 votes. But he was one of the most wonderful grandfathers who ever lived. His prosperous glue (and gelatin) factory, at Madison Avenue and sist Street in Manhattan, would have made him a fortune even if he had not invented the mercury vapor lamp, built the first American steam locomotive, or helped finance the Atlantic cable. His long white hair reached almost to his shoulders. He shaved himself with a razor used by George Washington. He wore a black frock coat, a black stock about his neck...
Throughout the week's Manhattan activity, the Landon-Hoover axis seemed to work smoothly in just one direction-against Wendell Willkie. Mr. Landon was curious as to "what ticket Mr. Willkie was aiming to end up on." In effect, two defeated GOPresidential candidates were helping a third one remain just that...