Word: ticketing
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...friend buy a ticket for him on the Normandie in the name of "R. G. Sucher."*At sailing time, "R. G. Sucher" was aboard but not in evidence. At Dublin he slipped ashore unrecognized, and two hours later was saying "I do" in a little Presbyterian church on Adelaide Road. A member of the U. S. Legation was his best man. He resumed his own name for the ceremony but the clergyman did not twig...
Oregon, Governor Charles H. ("Old Iron Pants") Martin, a retired major general and once a Republican, now 74 and a Democrat, supported the New Deal in Congress, was boosted on a Roosevelt ticket in 1934 from Congress into the Governor's chair. But crusty Governor Martin energetically sniped at Secretary Ickes' plans for Bonneville Dam, criticized the NLRB in blistering speeches, blasted "that miserable" Secretary Perkins, ended up by antagonizing both C. I. O. and A. F. of L. Not averse to tweaking even the Roosevelt nose, at Bonneville Dam last year the Governor introduced the gift-bearing...
University of Wisconsin as an institution has a long-standing liberal tradition. But not all Badgers are liberals. Month ago the conservatives on Madison's Langdon St. (Wisconsin's swank fraternity row) routed the liberals, elected their ticket* to the board of control of the undergraduate Daily Cardinal. Next day the new board ousted curly-haired Richard J. Davis, a New Yorker and no fraternity man, who had been elected executive editor by the retiring board to succeed New Yorker Morton Newman. The new board complained of Editor Davis' Leftist leanings, said he could not work...
...curly-wigged chromo that hung over the mantel. Veteran of three runaway attempts at 13, at 18 he was a member of the 1928 British Olympic boxing team, at 19, "hoofed out" of school in Sydney, Australia, he was sailing the South Sea islands on a "mud ticket" as master of a 20-ton yawl. By the time he was 21, he had made and lost a goldstrike fortune...
...Cambridge police caught up with Kirtley F. Mather, professor of Geology and leader of the expedition, before he had left the city. The other our cars waited patiently while the professor got his ticket for passing at an intersection in one of the new speed traps...