Word: ticket
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...week's end Stevenson flew eastward to his Libertyville farm, radiant with satisfaction over the way things are going for the Democrats in the West. His estimate of his week's pulse-taking: Montana, "very, very optimistic"; Idaho, "reassuring"; Washington, good prospects for the ticket "and especially for Senator Magnuson"; Oregon, desperate Republicans are sending for Ike; California, "always hard to predict, but I am much encouraged...
While Estes blasted Richard Nixon and Republican corruption, Campaign Assistant J. Howard McGrath sniped at National Committeeman Carmine De Sapio (who led the anti-Stevenson-Kefauver forces on Harriman's behalf at the Chica go convention): "He must have a vested interest in seeing this ticket defeated." But after Kefauver received telegrams of welcome from De Sapio and Governor Harriman, McGrath cooled down, accepted the explanation of local leaders: they were busy 24 hours a day getting voters registered for the election, could not spare time even to accompany their candidate. Said McGrath: "Merely a tempest in a teapot...
...banker, the New Deal's first (1933) Director of the Budget, U.S. Ambassador to Great Britain under Truman and three-time Demo cratic Congressman, backed Eisenhower (as he did in 1952) for his unique international "stature and substance," but promised to work hard for the local Arizona Democratic ticket...
...Trevor Gardner, longtime Republican, guided-missiles specialist and onetime (1955-56) Assistant Secretary of the Air Force for Research and Development, who quit his job in disgust with the slow pace of the missiles program, said he would "vote the straight Democratic ticket." ¶The Scripps-Howard newspaper chain, which endorsed Eisenhower-Nixon in 1952, polled the editors of its 19 papers for 1956 sentiments, got back a unanimous repeat endorsement...
...fact that the Cambridge Police does not visibly ticket Massachusetts cars, but rather mails these tickets directly to the Massachusetts owners...