Word: ticketeer
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Meanwhile, the Washington-Baltimore fans and press bought Lefty's scheme in its entirety. The field house was repainted. The Terrapin Club offered a gold Terrapin pin with an inlaid diamond, four season tickets to basketball and football games, and various parking privileges and ticket options to anyone who would make an annual donation of $1000 to the Maryland Educational Foundation for the purpose of athletic scholarships. Local automobile dealers donated 19 "courtesy cars" for use in recruiting and travel by Maryland coaches. And Driesell was installed as a prominent businessman in College Park. There is the Lefty Driesell...
...Democratic candidates hit the campaign trail, they discovered that voters were more concerned about Hanrahan than any other issue. Lieutenant Governor Paul Simon, who is running for Governor, told Daley that Hanrahan's presence on the ticket could defeat them...
...summoned the state's top political leaders to a marathon Sunday meeting to discuss the fate of Hanrahan. After heated argument, the caucus decided that Hanrahan had to go. Next day, Cook County's 80 ward and township committeemen met to vote to replace him on the ticket with Raymond Berg, chief judge of the traffic court. They had little time to make the change official. If Berg was going to qualify, they had to have about 6,000 names on petitions by 5 o'clock that afternoon. City business was ignored as jobholders scurried around with...
...worst-for example, a probe of Chicago cops in the style of New York City's Knapp Commission. Already the names of several dozen people who say their signatures were forged on Berg petitions have been handed to Hanrahan for investigation. Even if he is dropped from the ticket, Hanrahan still has another year in office in which to make trouble...
...some of the benefits and sacrifices of the deal became evident last week. Officials of U.S. airlines, including Pan Am and TWA, said that North Atlantic air fares would rise in dollars by about the amount of U.S. devaluation (8.6%), thus wiping out the reduction in ticket prices that is scheduled to begin in February. U.S. tourists paid higher prices for goods throughout most of the world, including, of all places, the ber-yozka (hard-currency stores) of the Soviet Union, where the dollar fetches seven times its official rate ($1.11) on the black market...