Word: ticket
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...Dwight Eisenhower at the Republican National Convention in 1952. Still McKeldin was the underdog. But the Republican candidate for city comptroller withdrew after a firm he once headed was found insolvent by the Baltimore Circuit Court. The G.O.P. filled the vacancy with Hyman Pressman, a Democrat who had switched tickets after los ing his own party's nomination for comptroller. Pressman, self-styled "watchdog'' of Baltimore's budget, is a perennial candidate for one office or another and, while never before a winner, he has a considerable following. Baltimore politicians figured that his presence...
Curiously enough, there was a time when lotteries and raffles in the U.S. were considered not only moral but indispensable to the nation's growth. In colonial days, Jefferson, Franklin and Hamilton all favored lotteries as governmental revenue raisers. George Washington was an enthusiastic ticket buyer even when he was President. The Continental Congress raised money to pay soldiers through a lottery. Hard-pressed property owners often put their holdings on the market through lotteries, and Jefferson himself, in debt near the end of his life, appealed to the Virginia legislature for permission to run a lottery. Princeton, Columbia...
...career woman with five children who proclaimed, "The era of women's rights has merged with the era of women's opportunities." This week Barnard (enrollment: 1,500) inaugurated a new pacesetter, President Rosemary Park, a tiny, witty, lucid spinster with a steely mind and a compromise ticket...
House Bill 1382 would establish a joint ticket for the offices of Governor and Lieutenant-Governor, another alleviation of the strain on the parties as well as the candidates and a basis for greater co-operation within the executive branch...
Admission will be charged for all events held at Soldiers Field on April 13, 20 and 27, May 18, and June 12. Ticket book coupons will be accepted for free admission for all events with the exception of the Yale baseball game on June...