Word: ticket
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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From the very start, Kennedy led the ticket, with Dever only a short distance behind. The heaviest voting was in the Presidential contest, but Stevenson lagged behind the Democratic ticket as a whole, with the single exception of the Attorney General race. Democrat Kelly's opponent, Fingold, managed to outrun the Republican ticket, but his lead came to a halt when the Boston precincts reported...
Corruption, "mess in Washington." Just a few days ago we heard about the mayor of a large eastern city who recently had occasion to announce that he wished people wouldn't pester him to fix yellow tickets. He could only manage the red ones--for parking. It never occurred to the businessman who told us this story (an ardent opponent of "Truman corruption") that this was itself a form of corruption--to him the fixing of tickets had no moral significance at all. The plain fact is that a certain amount of corruption is fundamental to the American...
...this stage, Stevenson must capture over 70% of the undecideds to carry the state. Against a strong Republican state ticket, an effective organization, and a popular presidential candidate it will not be easy...
Undergraduates will be limited to two tickets per bursar's card when the Yale game tickets go on sale Monday, November 10, Frank D. Lunden, Athletic Association ticket manager, announced yesterday...
Poland went to the polls last week to elect its first Sejm (Parliament) under the new constitution of the Polish People's [Communist] Republic. There was no fuss, no muss, and no opposition. Voters were handed pink cards containing the names of but one ticket, led by Communist President Boleslaw Bierut. Then they were told to fold and drop the card into an urn. An area was screened off where voters, if they wished, could go to cross off any names on the card. Few did, in the face of a warning: "Those who deliberately impair the unity...