Word: ticket
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...present $1.so-a-year poll tax. ¶In Texas, a straight anti-poll-tax 2 amendment went down by a 24,000-vote margin. ¶Campaign strategists for Senator Robert Taft got off to a flying start in the 1950 elections by steering through an amendment eliminating straight-ticket voting from the Ohio ballot and substituting the "Masachusetts ballot," which lists all candidates alphabetically by office and without regard to party. Taft supporters, who feared the drawing power of popular Democratic Governor Frank Lausche at the top of a straight-ticket ballot, figured the change was worth 100,000 votes...
...hours later, dressed in his best suit and a white sailor cap, Artie walked into the Waldorf and explained that his mother was waiting at La Guardia Field with his ticket. He fumbled when the airport bus driver asked for the $1.25 fare until a kindly passenger coughed up. There was no problem at the field: he just walked up the gangway with everybody else, settled down in a seat beside the window, soon, high over eastern Pennsylvania, he was chatting with the stewardess and sipping chicken broth...
...considered "at the game" unless he was seen, bleary eyed, hanging on to a piece of the uprights. A CRIMSON of 1928 stated, "One goalpost was traced to the railroad station, half of the other drove into a ditch after it had failed to gore four citizens and a ticket post, and a member of the second post was checked for Straus Hall by the unfailing courtesy that is the Taft Hotel...
...Harvard-Yale game of 1891 produced America's first football ticket scandal. There were no laws against scalping and there was no such thing as a federal admission tax, but it was strictly against the law to counterfeit tickets, which is exactly what a New York speculator did before his activities were halted by a gendarme...
...Haven Railroad has added something new this year to Yale game ticket-selling by buying a batch of tickets in the Yale section. The railroad will try to sell the tickets to its patrons, who will be able to buy admission and transportation to the game all at once...