Word: ticket
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Poll Watcher. In Detroit, Mrs. George Atkinson complained that her husband, an ardent Republican, shoved her out of the car when she told him she had voted the straight Democratic ticket...
...Cook County's frantic sheriff race said Bertie, "we made the fight that beat 'Tubbo' [Police Capt. Daniel A. Gilbert] and elected [John E.] Babb. Also, we carried Ohio, Indiana, Iowa, Colorado, California, Minnesota and Wisconsin. Not bad. We carried Michigan for all of the ticket but [Harry F.] Kelly [the G.O.P. candidate in the still-disputed governor's race], and carried all of the state for him except C.I.O. Detroit and the upper peninsula, which, without railroad mail service from Chicago, is lacking in education. Next time, we will have to go down and educate...
Furthermore, each participant in any sport at Harvard is required to buy a $20 participation ticket, something unheard of down where Yalies live. Carroll Getchell, business manager of the H.A.A. says the the $20 fees "take up a large part of the load" in paying for the expensive set-up. Yale does not pay any of its coaches, while Harvard gives its football coaches $100 per season...
...Tickets for seats on the Crimson side of Soldiers Field are sold out for the Yale game, but there are still many available seats high up behind the goal posts, Frank O. Lunden, ticket director of the Athletic Association, said last night...
Pint-measured Jake Arvey, 55, had to take most of the blame for the debacle visited upon Chicago's once-mighty Democratic political machine. Arvey had defaced the Illinois ticket with Police Captain Daniel A. ("Tubbo") Gilbert, a veteran cop with a big bankroll and a psychological block against arresting important gangsters. Gilbert was a major factor in the defeat of Senate Majority Leader Scott Lucas; he also cost the Cook County Democrats some important offices...