Word: ticket
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...second thought, the "popular" demand for a Perón-Perón ticket seemed less than overwhelming. Only 250,000, instead of the expected 2,000,000, had turned out for last fortnight's monster meeting at which the Peróns said yes. Some Peronista chieftains began to complain that too many traditions were being broken too fast and that the Sefiora had better restrain her ambitions for a while. At the last minute, moreover, Argentina's soldiers were reported bridling at the unspeakable thought that if Perón should die, a woman would...
Without batting an eye, Oracle Truman said he hadn't said that at all. As he had just said, he is very fond of General Eisenhower. But he doesn't think the general is a candidate for President on the Democratic ticket. And, said Harry Truman, he couldn't very well help General Eisenhower be a candidate on the Republican ticket, because that wouldn't do the general any good. Anyway, he had another candidate for the Republican ticket: Senator Taft...
...telephones they asked each other what men had been asking since the beginning of oracles: "What did he really mean?" It seemed clear that the President: 1) still enjoyed acting as Eisenhower's most-quoted character reference; 2) had ruled out Ike as a possibility on the Democratic ticket and considered him a Republican; and 3) would like nothing better than to run against Taft because he thinks he can beat him. In short, Harry Truman had upheld the ancient tradition of oracles by being solemn, obscure, ambiguous and just wise enough to bring the customers back for more...
...political ambition that reached all the way to the White House, he made his last cast for office, began a campaign for the Democratic nomination for U.S. Senator from New York. Governor Al Smith, who had come to despise the great publisher, refused to run on the same ticket with him. It was a death blow to Hearst's candidacy. At last he knew that he would never be President...
...turned up in East St. Louis. A quick long-distance call confirmed her story. McKinney knew all the men who had "confessed" to killing him; in fact, he had cleaned them out in a crap game the night he left Indianola, and used his profits to buy his bus ticket...