Word: ticket
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...make up. Before the elections, Humphrey probably stood behind both Michigan's Governor G. Mennen Williams and New York's Governor Averell Harriman as the strongest entry from the Democratic Fair Dealing wing. But Harriman was torpedoed in the elections, "Soapy" Williams ran fifth on his state ticket-and Humphrey moved past them both...
...trunks and a flowered sports shirt, sat basking in the desert sun and in a delightful dilemma: whether to hew sternly to a campaign pledge to serve his full four-year term as Governor or to sound like an oracle when people talk about him for the Democratic national ticket in 1960. He chose the oracular: "I believe in a certain philosophy of government-of a government which serves all the people-and I think that as Governor of California I'll have a chance to work for that kind of government not only in this state...
...themselves. Already they have survived a good many hard knocks from the outside: the one-two punch of the 1929 Depression and the founding of the House system, for instance, before which time members usually ate three meals a day in the Club, enjoyed special benefits such as theatre ticket services and private Club railway cars for the Yale football game and crew race, and generally ran up bills of $150 to $200 a month...
...themselves. Already they have survived a good many hard knocks from the outside: the one-two punch of the 1929 Depression and the founding of the House system, for instance, before which time members usually ate three meals a day in the Club, enjoyed special benefits such as theatre ticket services and private Club railway cars for the Yale football game and crew race, and generally ran up bills of $150 to $200 a month...
...What did you buy a ticket for if you don't stay the whole game?" Sebbie spit back. "So long...