Word: ticketing
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...logic" of the Robinson nomination was, of course: that he is Dry, Methodist, Southern; that he matches Nominee Curtis for attracting the farm vote; that his nomination was endorsed by most Democratic Senators, potent in their home territories; that his warm, rugged personality and impressive party record bolster the ticket...
...bristled Secretary of the Interior. Dr. Work's centre of influence is supposed to be in Colorado, where he long practiced medicine and where, at Pueblo, he founded a hospital. The choice of a more easterly generalissimo for the G. 0. P. campaign had been expected, since the ticket is California-and-Kansas and since the sharpest competition between the two parties is expected to centre in the urban East. But the Work-for-Chairman movement was many months old. Dr. Work was the first Hooverizer in the Cabinet...
Senator Curtis sat in his hotel room all morning answering telephone calls. Surprised delegation leaders were inquiring if it was true that he would consent to be the "tail of the ticket" after announcing he would be the head and nothing else. Senator Curtis reiterated that he would not consent. But the political prairies were afire...
Before the Hoover nomination, but after it had been conceded, Candidate Curtis had said: "If some of the gentlemen from the East had had a little more backbone we might have had a ticket that the whole party would have been proud of. ... I would not give three whoops in hell for the man who only goes along with the tide. I wish . . . we would not have to listen to Vare of Philadelphia name the Republican nominee...
Married. Mrs. Helen L. Howerton, mother of Major Mite, 18-year-old Ringling-Barnum midget; to Robert H. Crawford, Ringling-Barnum ticket-taker; in Boston...