Word: ticket
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Interior Douglas McKay. Said Smathers: "Six years ago the Democrats were fighting Morse in Oregon. Now he's trying to get their vote, and some think he's just a turncoat. What better way to get them with him than to identify himself with the national ticket...
...held 22 years by his famed father, the New Deal stalwart for whom the Wagner Labor Relations Act was named. But Young Bob was plainly reluctant to run this year. The obvious time would have been against Republican Irving Ives in 1958-when he would not be bucking a ticket headed by Dwight Eisenhower. Moreover, for a family man there was the matter of personal sacrifice. As mayor, Wagner gets $40,000 a year in salary, $25,000 a year tax-free for expenses, the rent-free use of the 15-room Gracie Mansion, plus-five servants, a city...
Rude Awakening. Whip-smart Walter Reuther, the United Auto Workers' leader whose political prestige was placed on the November line by his effective convention support of a Stevenson-Kefauver ticket, launched into a 20-minute argument for an all-out Democratic endorsement. Labor, said Reuther, must protect its bargaining-table gains in the political arena. "We did not choose the battlefield," he cried. "Our enemies have gone there, and that is where labor must go to protect itself...
Three weeks ago State's Attorney Gutknecht got himself off the spot by releasing records confirming that Paschen's welfare fund had indeed been used for political purposes. Democrats stepped up pressure on Paschen to get off the ticket for "the good of the party." Stubbornly, the treasurer held out. Said he time and again: "I'm running...
...blew off. The Sim-Times disclosed that Paschen had failed to account for a $4,000 contingency fund. Reacting swiftly, Gutknecht subpoenaed Paschen to appear before the grand jury. That brought Dick Daley down with both feet. Said the mayor flatly: "His running would be injurious to the entire ticket. I hope he does the right thing...