Word: ticket
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Willkie and Johnston-boy, what a ticket...
Long before Pearl Harbor, Lausche was interventionist. His election in 1941 was virtually a Cleveland referendum on the war; and he soundly trounced rabid isolationist Congressman Martin Sweeney. Cleveland, under Lausche, has feared no Detroit riots. (His ticket last week included three Negro Councilmen.) As mayor, he has helped settle many a labor dispute, has had labor unions with him from the start. So are local G.O.P. businessmen: his Republican opponent had a hard time getting campaign finances...
...crowd during his undergraduate days at the University of St. Louis. He'd skip out of classes every week and start back Tuesday so he'd be back Wednesday in time for his first Monday class. One week he was in St. Louis just long enough to buy another ticket to Chicago. He forgot to get a round trip; so he never went back...
...Teatro Colon's ticket office was swamped. Rumor galloped across the capital, cantered into the chambers of President Pedro Ramirez's reactionary nationalist Cabinet. Promptly the Government canceled the Academy's meeting. People on the street nodded knowingly, as if to say, "They feared to let him speak." Suddenly on the newsstands appeared red-&-black booklets containing the Bishop's unspoken address. Crowds snapped them...
...Professor Cross discovered quite early in the game that he was onto their curves. When he was petitioned in 1932 by the Democrats to serve as their political white hope, Wilbur Cross went to work as quietly as usual to get a questionable Waterbury Democrat dropped from the State ticket. Cross did not say he would not run if Daniel J. Leary was nominated for Lieutenant Governor. But he did insist that the nomination for Governor be held in abeyance until after the nomination of a candidate for second place on the slate. Worried by the thought that Cross might...