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Word: ticket (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1940-1949
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Controller Tiemann and a platoon of enraged party bosses set up an opposition ticket, called themselves the Independent Republican Good Government group. But in last week's primaries, Meade's ticket won in a walk. Nobody thought that all of Philadelphia's old fat cats had changed their spots. But Bill Meade had at least made a start toward proving that a big city machine can give the voters good men and decent government...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: POLITICAL NOTES: New Faces in Philly | 9/26/1949 | See Source »

...membership rolls to be ready for underground activity. Moreover, the peace rally could boomerang on party members in some countries. Brazil's Deputy Pedro Pomar, who is a member of the outlawed Communist party but holds his seat because he was also elected on the Social Progressive ticket, was threatened with expulsion from Brazil's Congress after saying in Mexico that Brazil's armed forces were ruled by "Yankee generals...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Down Warmongers! | 9/19/1949 | See Source »

...alert Taft machine got an early jump in a fast political maneuver. Ohio ballots now list candidates under the party label so that voters can vote a straight ticket by making one cross at the top of the ballot. Taft people saw the hazard in this for their candidate. The Democratic ticket would be headed by popular, thin-skinned and independent Frank John Lausche, who probably would be running for re-election as governor. Lausche's name was enough to pull thousands of straight party votes so that any Tom, Dick or Joe, running as a Democratic candidate...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: National Affairs: Mr. Republican Goes to Ohio | 9/12/1949 | See Source »

With all its chronic ailments, Broadway was also suffering from the city's investigation into the black market in tickets to hit shows. Twenty-four of the town's ticket brokers had lost their licenses, six more were under charges, and one box-office man had been suspended. The theater's reputable citizens spoke bravely of reform...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Theater: New Season in Manhattan? | 9/12/1949 | See Source »

...Exchange will be in the marble-hailed Chicago Stock Exchange; the exchanges in other cities will be its regional branches, linked together by telephone and teletype. The prospects for more trading looked so good that the price of seats on Chicago's Stock Exchange, now an automatic admission ticket to Midwest, climbed from $3,200 to $4,100, the highest in three years...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: SECURITIES: 4 Into 1 | 9/12/1949 | See Source »

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