Word: ticket
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...controlled election officials and judges refused to let anybody get near them, and Pastor Clee went back to his church. Many an unproved charge has been made of Hudson County: of its floaters, of more registrations than there are eligible voters, of dead men still voting the straight Hague ticket. Boss Hague piously and indignantly denies everything, and Hudson continues to turn out the necessary whopping vote...
Next week, when they go to the polls, voters will find no contest on the Democratic ticket. Unopposed for Governor is Secretary of the Navy Charles Edison...
...Governor on the Democratic ticket: eleven-including Busman Burton Schoepf, who partly financed his campaign by issuing $1 stock certificates which bore the redemption clause (and a grammatical howler): "When elected, this certificate will entitle the holder to have luncheon or dinner as my guest at the Mansion." For Senator on the Democratic ticket: six, including Incumbent Charles O. Andrews, Governor Fred Preston Cone, Charles Francis ("Socker") Coe, author of Me-Gangster, and Bernarr Macfadden, publisher of Liberty, True Story Magazine, Physical Culture, True Love and Romance. Declared Mr. Macfadden: "Teeming vitality is of course important, but a Government that...
...semi-Fascist) candidate, Joaquin Martinez Saenz, that the Republican Action Party's leader, onetime President Miguel Mariano Gómez, should be the nominee for Mayor of Havana, No. 2 political job on the island. But election laws require that each party nominate a full ticket, which later may be "corrected" by withdrawals. All the opposition parties made up their tickets, with the understanding that dummy candidates would withdraw later. Time passed and many of the dummies forgot to withdraw. Last week Dr. Grau looked for his party's dummy vice-presidential candidate to get his withdrawal, found...
Along Manhattan's Jacobs Beach-a babbling little strip of sidewalk outside Boxing Tsar Mike Jacobs' 49th Street ticket office-there was gloom one day last week. Promoters, matchmakers, managers, trainers, seconds and the miscellaneous collection of has-beens and hangers-on who make a daily appearance at pugilism's trading post, shook their heads, dumfounded. For "Yussel the Muscle." their most picturesque colleague, and only 43 years old. had died of a heart attack the night before...