Word: ticket
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Congress and state legislatures had appropriated millions to build super highways on which speeders could kill themselves at higher speeds. The traffic light, the yellow line, the parking lot, the parking meter, the underground garage, the one way street, the motorcycle cop and the traffic ticket had all blossomed amid the monoxide fumes - and traffic had gone right on getting thicker and noisier year by year...
...someone who would help him get along with Congress. Among others, he considered Senators Knowland and Nixon, Governors Warren, Sherman Adams (New Hampshire), Val Peterson (Nebraska), Dan Thornton (Colorado). Brother Milton Eisenhower plugged for Taft; although Eisenhower advisers thought that Taft 1) would be bad for the ticket, 2) would not accept anyway. Eisenhower left the final decision to a meeting of his advisers, presided over by Herbert Brownell, at the Hilton, on the afternoon of his nomination. The meeting quickly settled on California's Richard Nixon...
Last week, ticket in hand, Rodney got some bad news. When he called the State Department about his passport, Division Chief Mrs. Ruth Shipley asked him: "Are you a Communist?" Answered Rodney: "That's none of your concern. What does that have to do with a passport to cover a sport event?" Mrs. Shipley thought it had plenty to do with it, since the "spirit of" the McCarran Internal Security Act bans passports for Communists. If Rodney would swear he was not a Red, she said, he could get his passport. When he declined to do so, Mrs. Shipley...
...result, Grundymen urged the election of the straight Republican ticket, and Owlett raised money for Fine's campaign...
...Chiang and more force against the Communists. This, and his charge that the State Department's Far Eastern policy was "bankrupt," caused his enemies in Washington to label him "the Senator from Formosa." This political position, plus his Pacific Coast following, equip him particularly well to balance a ticket headed by Eisenhower...