Word: ticket
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: during 1960-1969
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
...AMER ICA is run from New Orleans by a former Pan American airline pilot named Kent Courtney, 43, who, with his wife Phoebe, started publishing anti-Communist literature in 1954 with only $18 in capital. Courtney, an unsuccessful candidate for Governor of Louisiana on the States' Rights ticket in 1960, believes that "socialist and Communist influence now pervades the thinking of our Federal Government and the two major political parties." He claims members in 45 states, distributes about half a million pamphlets a year, is an active, unit-founding member of the John Birch Society...
...becoming, at 36, the youngest Governor in New Hampshire's history. Bridges instituted unemployment compensation and insurance, old age benefits, even while balancing the budget. By 1936, Governor Bridges was a leading candidate for the vice-presidential nomination. But Alf Landon won the top spot on the ticket, and even before the Republican Convention, gleeful Democrats had come up with a deadly campaign slogan: "Landon-Bridges Falling Down." The convention turned to Chicago Publisher Frank Knox as its vice-presidential nominee, and Bridges decided to run for the Senate. He won easily, despite the Roosevelt landslide...
...campaign against me," he sputtered. "I'll never go after him, no matter how long I live." Last year, for much the same reasons, Bridges refused requests to take the Texas stump against Lyndon Johnson, then running for Senate re-election even while appearing on the Democratic national ticket as a vice-presidential candidate...
...stated in your article, CORE has never urged Trailways to lower their standards. We know that qualified applicants have sought employment at Trailways as baggage clerks and ticket agents. The Young Democrats' report fails to mention that present Trailways porters sought advancement but were put off by the Trailways management while outside whites were hired. The case of the one porter who finally was allowed to take an "advancement" test and then was fired is but one of many incidents; failure to file a formal charge with the Massachusetts Commission Against Discrimination hardly should be equated with lack of discrimination...
Although no Negroes are employed at Trailways as baggage clerks, ticket agents, or bus drivers, the report says no qualified Negroes have yet applied for these positions." Therefore, it concedes, "It is unfair at this time to condemn Trailways as discriminatory...