Word: ticket
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...spirited Management class last Wednesday made us think of that old rhyme, "No more pencils, no more books, etc." And "Killer" Grew will positively accept any and all nominations to run for any office on the V. W. A. (Vacationing Workers of America) ticket...
...ruddy, cherubic Howard Wilkinson Jackson, 65, last week found himself out of a job. Democrat Jackson, who had kept a profitable insurance business on the side, was soundly trounced (20,000 votes) by Republican Theodore Roosevelt McKeldin, 42, fireman's son, lawyer, spellbinder. All other Democrats on the ticket were elected, but Republicans had won the best flitch of political bacon. Democrats, who have lost the mayoralty only twice before since 1900, blamed the defeat on 1) the accumulated enmities which pile up on any longtime officeholder, 2) the preponderance of women voters, 3) the apathy of Negro Democrats...
Service. In Manhattan, a stranger fresh from Scotland asked a ticket agent if he knew her son, Jim Smith, who she thought worked for some telegraph com pany either in New York or Chicago ; the ticket agent took a chance, phoned a local telegraph office; the phone was answered by the right Jim Smith...
...Ticket to Hell. The President had expressed himself as aghast; he made the announcement suddenly, from a train-stop at Corpus Christi, Tex., "with a feeling of deepest horror...
...rich depth of the wound they had given the U.S. They had justified the executions easily: the flyers had bombed and strafed civilians, said the Jap. Now they went a step further: Jap broadcasts warned that all flyers who came over Tokyo would get a "one-way ticket to hell"; a Jap newspaper said Japan "has established a new international law in matters of air war." Berlin, unable to export anything but sympathy to Japan, purred approval of the Japanese "precedent...