Word: ticket
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: during 1950-1959
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
...California polls show Ike with a considerable (but diminishing) lead. The outcome may depend on how vigorous a campaign Governor Warren puts on for the Republican ticket this week...
...KENTUCKY, Democratic Senator Tom Underwood, editor of the Lexington Herald, is slightly ahead of ex-Senator John Sherman Cooper. Cooper is running well ahead of the G.O.P. national ticket...
...Virginia's former Governor William M. Tuck followed Virginia's Senator Harry Byrd in saying that he could not endorse the Democratic national ticket. ¶Physicist Albert Einstein said Stevenson would get his vote because "I trust his integrity, judgment and intelligence." Syndicated Columnist Dorothy Thompson announced she would vote for Eisenhower "against Truman and Trumanism." ¶Arkansas' third largest afternoon paper, the Pine Bluff Commercial, broke an 84-year-old precedent, came out for Eisenhower, explained to its readers that it wasn't "whole hog" Republican-only "just...
Related to the Taft issue is Eisenhower's endorsement of Senator Joe McCarthy. Eisenhower and his advisers decided early in the campaign that Ike would ask for the election of the whole Republican ticket in each state. Ike did not endorse McCarthy until the voters of Wisconsin made him the Republican nominee. Considering McCarthy's smashing primary victory, Eisenhower gave him, by any political standard, cool, correct treatment. In Green Bay, Wis. Ike stressed the difference between McCarthy and himself, but added that they differed on "method," not "objectives," i.e., uprooting of Communism in Government...
...soft coal miners stayed out on strike against a ruling of the Administration's Wage Stabilization Board that they should get only $1.50 of the $1.90 daily wage raise granted in their new contract with the mine operators. Lewis himself went right on politicking for the Democratic ticket. But to the soft coal operators the United Mine Workers' boss sent a letter telling them just how he felt about the adverse Administration gesture which he had never expected...