Word: ticket
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Roosevelt came into the campaign roaring. Frank O'Connor, he said, had agreed to take second spot on the City ticket last year if he would be given the nomination for governor this time out. This "deal" was the apparent raison d'etre for the Roosevelt candidacy. His advance man cries "Give the people a choice. We're appealing to the independent Democrat, the Wagner Democrat (former Mayor Robert F. Wagner supports O'Connor), the voter who doesn't listen to the bosses...
...City Council President O'Connor, who is conspicuously short of personal dynamism, effective organization and cash, accused Rockefeller of a "shabby attempt to mislead the people" and exhumed a four-year-old scandal in the state administration. Franklin D. Roosevelt Jr., a Democrat running on the Liberal Party ticket, was dismissed by O'Connor as a "failure at every job he ever held." Roosevelt merrily belabored both major contestants, while Conservative Paul Adams sniped from the right at the three liberals...
Johnson had planned to speak at a political rally in Post Office Square to lend support to the state Democratic ticket in the final days of the campaign...
Frustrated by this situation, Stevenson accepted Senator Paul Douglas' offer of second billing on the Democratic slate. (There's no Illinois gubernatorial election this year.) Douglas, who is in a rough contest with Charles Percy, felt that Stevenson's name would, indeed, help the ticket. Chicago's Mayor Richard J. Daley agreed to the nomination in spite of Stevenson's endorsement, last spring, of Abner Mikva, who made a bold though unsuccessful bid to unseat one of Daley's men in the U.S. House of Representatives...
...primary Keith brooded at his home in Rochester for three days. Bowing to party pressure he then announced his support of Rolvaag "for the good of the party." Since then he's made several appearances at D.F.L. rallies and spoken half-heartedly in support of the now official ticket. Humphrey, who wisely sat on the sidelines during the primary fight, has returned to lend his waning prestige to Rolvaag's campaign and patch up the party's wounds...