Word: ticket
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...oppose him. It was like trying to stop a locomotive by lying across the tracks. In 1932, when Huey went about setting up his puppet governor -one O. K. Allen, a Winnfield sawmill operator who had once lent him $500-Earl ran for lieutenant governor on the opposing ticket, and was soundly licked...
...Leche-Long ticket won, but afterward nobody had time for Earl. The gang rushed to the public trough and swilled up wealth with porcine delight. Leche, a fat and jolly man, built himself a mansion on the exclusive St. Tammany "Gold Coast." George Caldwell, an even fatter man, who was construction supervisor for the burgeoning L.S.U. campus, built an even better one-its bathroom boasted 14-karat gold fixtures. Not to be outdone, Abe Shushan, president of the New Orleans Levee Board, built a mansion...
...coalition of the Estadistas (an offshoot of the continental G.O.P.), the Reformists and the Socialists. They are pledged to work for statehood on a ticket headed by Martin Travieso, Chief Justice of Puerto Rico's Supreme Court...
...Ticket Taker...
...issue of the New York Daily News, ticket agencies representing the wildcats (for commissions as high as 20%) ran five different ads for cut-rate "air coach" flights to the West Coast. In Los Angeles, eight agencies were advertising. Prevailing rate: $99 plus tax (35% cheaper than the scheduled airlines' fare...