Word: ticketeer
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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DEMOCRATIC FRONT-RUNNER Edmund Muskie provided Poor Richard with a clue to where he might look to pick up the needed black support when Muskie said that he would not under any circumstances run on a ticket with a black Vice-Presidential candidate because "if a black man were on the ticket, we would both lose...
...labeling Muskie's statement "a libel on the American conscience." Then with the pot-luck inspiration of the truly smart poker player, Citizen Richard re-inforced his statement by adding that he even had a specific black in mind who he felt would be an asset to any national ticket: Senator Edward Brooke of Massachusetts...
Nodding in agreement, I moved over to the ticket booth and told the occupant I wanted to look around to find material for a Crimson article--I had heard from a friend several days before that the Orson Welles was going bankrupt. The ticket-seller, who turned out to be co-director of the theater, assured me that the Orson Welles stood in no danger of ruin, briefed me at length of plans to improve the theater, and--more interestingly to me--told of a new program Friday and Saturday midnights called "The Underground Film Organization." In this program, well...
HOWEVER, IT IS UNDENIABLY CLEAR that Nixon is bluffing, hoping that he can finesse a return ticket to the White House. Completing a suit-by-suit survey of his political hand for '72, one is suddenly aware of the reason for the bluff. He has a fatal void in Spades...
However, soon after DePriest's election, the economic collapse following the Stock Market Crash threatened the Republican party with political bankruptcy. The mass of black voters brought up in the tradition of total support of the Republican ticket found it hard to break the habit. In the election of '32 only 23 per cent of Chicago's blacks voted for Roosevelt...