Word: ticket
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...only dent Republicans succeeded in making in the huge Democratic majorities was in the race for Attorney General. Even there, however, Edward J. McCormack Jr. handily won from Christian A. Herter Jr., although Herter led the rest of his ticket by more than 100,000 votes...
...Alesandro, 55, has weathered scandal and long odds to win every one of his 23 campaigns in 32 years of professional politics, has strong city strength and is hanging on the coattails of popular Democratic candidate for Governor Millard Tawes to pull up his back-country margins. Only ticket-splitters can save Beall...
...second effect of these ambitions became evident recently. The holder of the Senate seat that Furcolo is aiming at has responded to the cry. Senator Leverett Saltonstall has entered this year's race on an unprecedented scale. Ostensibly, he is out to help the Republican ticket; actually, he is drawing the lines of battle for his own fight in 1960. Therefore, what seems on the surface to be a rather routine election is actually the first stage of a battle involving the political futures of the three top Massachusetts office-holders...
Suddenly all this changed on September 1, when, as the Boston Globe headlined, "Fingold Drops Dead." With the primary eight days away, the GOP found itself without a candidate to head the ticket, and, moreover, without a single incumbent on the entire state-wide slate...
Schlesinger doubted that Governor Faubus "would be foolish enough to head a Dixiecrat ticket" despite his landslide victory in the Arkansas primaries last summer...