Word: ticket
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...into local politics. Following Kentucky custom, candidates for office announce themselves on "court day," when, after the grand jury is impaneled, the judge recesses the court for the day and turns the courtroom over to the candidates. When John Sherman Cooper announced that he was running on the Republican ticket for the state House of Representatives in 1927, the crowd cheered. "They weren't cheering for me," says Cooper. "They were cheering for my father." He won without opposition...
...drawing comfortably large crowds. His message: "Europe can survive only if we unite . . . Soviets seek to dominate us. They try to coax us with trade. Well, an American Congressman has suggested that anyone who wants to go to Russia and promises not to return should be given a free ticket [laughter]. Russia wants our resources and industries. She won't give up until she realizes that Europe is unified and strong force is facing her. Only then can one talk to her . . . Russia will never negotiate with the West until it is united . . . has power. Therefore we must create...
Friend in Need. In Minneapolis, Carleton J. West, 24, stopped his car on a bridge, plunged into the Mississippi River, rescued a drowning woman, gave her artificial respiration, then found that he had a ticket for illegal parking...
Investigation of the charges seemed likely to involve dozens of politicians and endanger G.O.P. ticket chances in November. Hoffman's daughter Ada called on her father's friends (she said that he had at least 300,000 of them) for contributions to make up the missing funds, but the response was not overwhelming. "He could never say no," she said sorrowfully. "That was his trouble...
Said he: "The opera is just as important to Baltimore as the Orioles." He joined forces with members of the Baltimore Opera Club. Last week, in quick, bloodless revolution, the group 1) elected Eleanor Miles vice president; 2) decided on a general rise in ticket prices (e.g., orchestra up from $9 to $10) for Met performances, to provide the guarantee. Lawyer Miles gave all the credit to Eleanor: "I'm just kibitzing...