Word: ticket
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...general election, got 418,432 votes in running unopposed for an unprecedented fifth term. Republican leaders found some comfort in the fact that in 75 of 144 key Detroit precincts-accurately used in the past to forecast election trends-Cobo ran well ahead of the 1954 G.O.P. ticket. To win in November, say the Republicans hopefully, Cobo needs only 40% of the Wayne County vote; Williams' weakness in predominantly Republican outstate Michigan will do the rest...
...candidate himself pounded away during the week at his favorite argument: no "moderate" should head the Democratic ticket; only a thoroughgoing, yard-wide New Dealer has a chance to beat Dwight Eisenhower. And only Harriman stands "for the principles of Franklin D. Roosevelt and Harry S. Truman, the only principles which will win in this campaign." (Retorted Stevenson, with an assenting nod from Eleanor Roosevelt: "I protest Mr. Harriman's claim that he has any exclusive rights to those principles...
...challenge to Nixon was apparently less disturbing than to his Janizariat. At his press conference last week, when the first question shot at him raised the Stassen issue, Ike was unruffled and ready with his thinking about the affair. His central point: the second man on the ticket, like the presidential candidate himself, must be chosen by the delegates at open convention and not by Eisenhower fiat. Until then, everyone has the right to express his preferences as he chooses...
...national leadership of the Christian Democrats, and their coalition partner the Liberals, shudder at La Pira's wild economic theories, but in last May's Italian municipal elections La Pira's Christian Democratic ticket won the biggest vote (101,000) ever given a single party in Florentine history. Unfortunately, despite this heavy vote, the Christian Democrats did not win a clear majority in the city council, which elects Florence's mayors...
...proviso from the court that she must not take the child out of the country. But, "as soon as I had Paul safe in my arms," she confessed, "I went to a suburban station where the family couldn't follow me, and I got the last second-class ticket on the first train leaving for Basra." Added Mrs. Subbagh, "I'm never going to leave the United States again as long as I live...