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Word: ticket (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1940-1949
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...would be politically difficult to impeach the President for the reason that the Democrats could not attack the head of their ticket in a campaign year. Besides, Mr. Roosevelt, more forehanded than Jefferson, had thought to arm himself. Attorney General Jackson in an opinion had found that the President, as Commander in Chief of the Army and Navy, was not only authorized to provide bases to defend the U. S., he was forbidden to "risk any delay." He also argued that the President had authority to dispose of naval vessels. And since no money was involved in the deal Congress...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: THE PRESIDENCY: The Big Deal | 9/16/1940 | See Source »

...pubs, giving plays by Shaw, Clifford Bax, Ivor Brown. Soon to open as the Uniform Theatre is the Garrick on Charing Cross Road, which will admit the boy or girl friend of all war workers. Encouraging theatre attendance in Brighton and Ports mouth is a rule: those who have ticket stubs for cinema or theatre are exempt from the curfew...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Theatre: Better Business | 8/26/1940 | See Source »

...quite comes off. The principals: James Nathaniel Wishart, a cautious redhead who has been married for 20 years without finding out he is ticklish; Emmy Cruger, a divorced, slim-waisted, no longer youthful college teacher whose knees are ordinary but whose discernment is not. Businessman Wishart wants a return ticket to Cytherea. Emmy offers him the ticket but refuses to guarantee more than a one-way trip. Her attitude: "We have only one life to live, if that." So Wishart takes no trip. Though he is the man she wants, Emmy yields instead to a man she does not: Jervis...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: Anguished Imp | 8/26/1940 | See Source »

...concentration which often made him better informed on House bills than their authors. When the late niggardly John Raymond McCarl (see p. 62) occupied the office, Washington dubbed him "Watchdog of the Treasury" for such piddling practices as forcing General John J. Pershing to pay for his own Pullman ticket after he had lost his voucher. Franklin Roosevelt, who cares little for such trivialities, was glad to see McCarl's term expire in 1936. After an unsuccessful attempt to abolish the post, he offered it to Warren, who promptly refused. This time, with billions going for defense, the President...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: FISCAL: Watchdog | 8/12/1940 | See Source »

...group of itinerant muralists did a job in the church of the little Sao Paulo town where he was born. They let him help mix their paints, and even paint a star or two himself on the church's ceiling. Four years later with a second-class railroad ticket, three shirts and a pair of pants, he set out for Rio to study art. Kindly professors at Rio's School of Fine Arts offered to give him free lessons. At 15 milreis ($3.75) a month Candido Portinari took up lodgings in a bathroom, slept...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Art: Italo-Brazilicm | 8/12/1940 | See Source »

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