Word: ticketeer
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...House was quick to deny any such statement, the angry veterans collected proof of service at their campsite on the Mall. Veterans turned in 900 DD-214 forms, which attested to their service in Viet Nam. One vet offered his glass eye as testimony, and another a used return ticket from Viet Nam. The evidence also included 200 piasters, a receipt from the Steam and Cream Massage Parlor in Bien Hoa, a membership card from Madame Binh's Hot Shop Parlor, a Chieu Hoi safe-conduct pass for Viet Cong defectors and, of all things, a membership card...
Donning a gas mask to protest police gassing tactics, she joined longshoremen picket lines with Zara du Pont, an activist member of the chemical clan. She also conducted campaigns in behalf of the League of Nations, and once ran for Congress on a pro-labor ticket against John McCormack...
...setting 32% in the first ten days of April, keeping alive Detroit's hopes for a 10-million-car year. But in retail stores, appliances, furniture and other consumer durables are selling slowly. Says Ralph Lazarus, chairman of Federated Department Stores: "The trend has not improved in big-ticket merchandise. If it continues this way, we will have an increase only in apparel sales this year...
While the majority of the demonstrators will again come from East Coast colleges and universities, march coordinators, apprehensive over lagging ticket sales in major antiwarcenters such as Boston, are now emphasizing the wide mixture of G.I.'s, veterans, businessmen, housewives, and students rather than making estimates of the crowd size...
Next came Hitler's ostrich-skin wallet, which was stuffed with 37 pictures, two negatives of Eva Braun and a free ticket to a 1927 high school dance in Linz, Austria. A broker bought it for a Texas oilman. The price: $665. An autographed Hitler portrait went for $670. Hitler's 1927 membership card in an automobile club fetched $270. An elderly German paid $130 for a short shopping list (vegetable soup and cognac) that der Führer had written out for Munich's famed Dallmayr delicatessen...