Word: ticket
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Burns is running for the Student Council on a Socialist ticket with full support of the Social Progressive Party. The Student Council rules prohibit any student running with the backing of an organization. "I expect to be disqualified by this rule," he added. "We are making a test case out of it, as we feel it is unfair that only independents are allowed to run," he explained...
Once again the South is threatening to bolt from the Democratic party. Five southern states, Georgia, Louisiana, Mississippi, Alabama, and Arkansas are planning to refuse to bind their Presidential electors to the national party ticket. This is obviously a first step in creating a Dixiecrat movement in the Southern states that stand firmly against the Supreme Court integration decree...
Liberals can point to Truman's victory in 1948 in spite of the four southern states that voted for the Dixiecrat Thurmond-Wright ticket. Further, the prospect of a party split has its appetizing aspects for the liberal wing of the party. A Democratic victory in 1960 achieved without the South could deprive these rebels of patronage and important committee places. This exclusion of the Dixiecrats from top party positions did not occur in 1948, but there is greater pressure in the party now for a tougher attitude towards splitting the recalcitrant South...
...control of $10 million?" asks Chesler.) With Universal's cash, Chesler bought Baltimore's American Totalisator, which owns and leases 80% of the racetrack "Tote" systems that automatically figure and post bets, odds and winnings. By swapping stock, Universal later acquired General Register Corp. (ticket machines for movies and racetracks) and C. P. Clare & Co. (electronic relays). The company, then renamed Universal Controls, paid cash for Canada...
Whatever its shortcomings, Bird opened with the sweet smell of commercial success in its beak. The advance ticket sale reached $390,000, and the screen rights were sold to M-G-M for a sliding-scale sum that may reach $400,000. A long Broadway run was assured when the seven critics of the Manhattan dailies, seemingly under the sway of collective hypnosis, unanimously hailed the Williams drama. Said the Herald Tribune's Walter Kerr: "Enormously exciting." The Times's Brooks Atkinson called it "one of Mr. Williams' finest dramas." The most startling display of devotion came...