Word: ticket
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Negro Vote: In 1952 the Eisenhower-Nixon ticket polled 21% of the Negro vote, in 1956 upped the figure to an astonishing 39%. But lest the G.O.P. start kidding itself about an irreversible trend, Gallup reported that Negroes generally used the word "Eisenhower" when they liked what the party did, used the word "Republicans" when they damned...
...beaten by Kefauver at Chicago last summer for the Democratic vice-presidential nomination. Aware of Majority Leader Lyndon Johnson's subtle touch in every sphere of Senate partisan activity, Columnist Fleeson saw the committee appointments as "the opening gun of an effort to put across a Johnson-Kennedy ticket at the Democratic National Convention...
...holding a series of evening meetings in a local Baptist church (chosen for its location rather than denomination) which are addressed by machine operators, clerks, union leaders, foremen and company officials. Slogan of the two-week crusade: "Just the job"-a non-U British expression synonymous with "just the ticket...
Pike bought a round-trip ticket for Martinique, and is known to have boarded a plane for San Juan, the switch-over point for the West Indies. Hoehler said that the trip was carefully planned...
...Ticket Sales. In Manhattan's Pennsylvania Station a huge closed-circuit TV net (estimated cost: $400,000) is being installed to speed reservations and ticket sales. Each of 16 Pennsylvania Railroad ticket counters will have a 14-in. TV receiver with a dialing system. When a customer asks for reservations, the ticket clerk dials a code number that indicates his route, and the TV screen pictures a chart showing space available for up to 16 weeks ahead. Dialing another number then brings on a reservations clerk, who puts the requested tickets in an Intrafax machine that reproduces them...