Word: ticket
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Today is the first and last day for undergraduates to apply for tickets to the University of Massachusetts football game Saturday, Frank O. Lunden, HAA Ticket Manager, has announced. Application envelopes, available in the Houses and the Union, are to be deposited in the boxes outside the HAA Office at 60 Boylston Street...
...Members of cleanup committees were subjected to a campaign of nuisance arrests and tire slashings. Two were badly beaten up, on a downtown street and in broad daylight, by hired bullies. In June 1954 Lawyer Albert Patterson, who had won nomination as Attorney General of Alabama on a cleanup ticket, was shot to death while sitting in his automobile just outside his office in the center of town...
...January 1894, the year he died, Robert Louis Stevenson began to fear that his work was going stale and wrote that he could actually wish to die, though suicide "is not thought the ticket in the best circles." In December 1894, at 44, he died of a cerebral hemorrhage. His mother was present, and it is her account of the death that Editor Neider presents. There is nothing more from Fanny. The spell was broken, the ledger book was closed, and there was nothing left but to sell Vailima and eventually return to the States. Twenty years later she died...
Joining Issue. Magsaysay, forced to make a stand, said flatly that he did not want Recto on the party's ticket in the November election (TIME, Aug 8). Recto declared open war and began firing hotter and hotter "open letters" at the President's palace. The issue was joined. Last week, as the Nationalist Party held its nominating convention in Manila, the time had come for a test of strength between...
...select a nine-man senatorial slate from the 55 candidates nominated on the floor. Then the 900 Nationalist delegates listened passively to a passionate speech by old Party Leader Jose P. Laurel, affirming his loyalty to Magsaysay but nominating his old friend Recto for a place on the party ticket. But Recto had little expectation that the executive committee would have him. He would run for the Senate anyway, possibly as an independent, he announced but he did not sound optimistic. Even Recto could see that the Nationalist Party now belonged to Magsaysay, that simple man who did not seem...