Word: ticket
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There are two historical precedents, both somewhat academic because they involve defeated candidates. In the campaign of 1872 (won by the Republicans' Ulysses S. Grant), Candidate Horace Greeley, heading a ticket of Democrats and Liberal Republicans, died before the meeting of the Electoral College. Since the 66 electors pledged to Greeley were voting for a lost cause, they were left on their own. Three voted for the dead man, three spread their votes among other party leaders, 18 voted for their party's vice presidential candidate. B. Gratz Brown, and 42 gave their ballots to the governor...
...cooperation with manufacturers (TIME, Feb. 25). The two partners dovetail in another way: Simpsons' mail-order business has always run two to one in favor of clothing, draperies and other soft goods, while at Sears the ratio has been reversed in favor of major appliances and other "big ticket" items. Simpsons-Sears's first catalogue, due in January, will take note of this by including an extra 40 pages devoted to such Sears specialties as sporting goods and housewares...
Under Chapter 140, Sec. 185a of the "General Laws of Massachusetts," scalping may draw a maximum penalty of a $500 fine. According to this regulation, "No person shall engage in the business of reselling any ticket or tickets of admission . . . to any public . . . exhibition . . . without being licensed therefor by the Commissioner of Public Safety...
Cambridge Police Chief, Patrick F. Ready, said, "I'll have all my detectives out Saturday. Probably close to 16 or 20 of them will be down where they can catch ticket scalpers--if any are around...
...last night, sources at Yale reported no large-scale ticket scalping in the New Haven area. Locally, yesterday's prices dropped from their Monday high. The change, experts agreed, is only a stabilizing one, and does not foretell and severe market shakes...