Word: ticket
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Kansas City's once-mighty Democratic machine, which used to get out the votes for Boss Tom Pendergast, was unable to persuade any "high-type" candidate to run on its ticket, meekly threw in with Reform Mayor William E. Kemp...
...disadvantages, the opposition had managed to get about 35% of the vote (compared with 45% two years ago). Moreover, though Perón's much-publicized candidate Father Virgilio Filippo (TIME, Feb. 16) was elected deputy from Buenos Aires, he ran well behind the others on the party ticket. Among opposition parties, the Socialists showed the greatest gain...
...frenzy narrowed to four schools: Evansville, Muncie, Lafayette and Anderson. "The fieldhouse four," as they are called, will travel to Indianapolis this week for the finale in Butler University Fieldhouse. Despite the size of the gym (capacity: 15,028), not a ticket could be bought. Sponsors guessed that they could easily sell another 50,000 tickets. There was little or no ticket-scalping, because as one Hoosier put it: "It's just like selling your auto. Where're you going to get another...
...death-and the depression-put the Garden into the red. Kilpatrick, a construction man, was picked to pull it out. Kilpatrick was fond of sports. At Yale ('11) he had been an All-America end as well as a Phi Beta Kappa. Kilpatrick cut out the mammoth free-ticket list, broke up the under-table deals with ticket speculators, put less stress on boxing, more on hockey (the Garden owns the cup-winning Rangers), the circus, ice shows and rodeos. By 1935 he hit the black with a profit of $179,568, has stayed there ever since.(The stock...
...Barnsdall Jr., a lawyer of Buffalo, lent a policeman a pencil to write, out a parking ticket, later got off on the ground that the ticket was not written in ink or indelible pencil...