Word: ticketeer
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...been so much hard work and emotion poured into this campaign by so many thousands of people, it would be such an infuriating, disillusioning experience for them all, that I would repudiate the whole process. I would run as an independent or support somebody else on an independent ticket. So if I'm denied the nomination by an illegitimate power play, that nomination will not be worth anything to the person who gets...
...economic situation, most probably by levying new taxes and borrowing piastres from the National Bank. As the final Senate vote approached, Thieu's forces put pressure on Senators; some of them said that they had been offered as much as $12,200 and a round-the-world air ticket for a yes vote. In the end, though the Senate had previously defeated a similar bill, the opposition could muster only 24 out of 60 votes. With passage certain, they tried to delay the vote, then simply boycotted a meeting called by pro-Thieu Senators, who waited until after...
Cornered soon afterward by other newsmen, Kennedy obscured things utterly by saying that he was not available for either place on the ticket-but that nonetheless he would consider standing for the vice presidency if the Democrats could not win without him. "I would not exclude all possibilities," he said, widening the confusion...
...President. Publicly Kennedy explains: "Family and personal considerations are the primary responsibilities I have at the present time. They are the first and overriding consideration." Kennedy will sit out most of the convention in Hyannisport. If he feels the need for a show of party unity after the ticket is picked, he will put in a quick appearance in Miami Beach...
...Washington. The vote was so close that both candidates asked that the ballot boxes be impounded before the official tally is announced this week. Even if his opponent is declared the winner, Celler has the option of running on the Liberal Party ticket in November. That makes Miss Holtzman's victory no less dramatic. She beat Celler at what was once his own game: an oldfashioned, hand-pumping, doorbell-ringing street campaign, aided by a determined group of volunteers. What is more, she beat him in a district that has a high index of elderly voters...