Word: tickets
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Bill Knowland. He is young (45) as Senate majority leaders go, but he is an old hand at politics. His father. J. R. (for Joseph Russell) Knowland. was a conservative Republican U.S. Representative in 1904-15. Young Billy made his first political speech (for the Harding-Coolidge ticket) when he was twelve, and at 16 occasionally sat in for his father as chairman of Republican committees in California. At 25 he was elected to the California assembly; at 27 he moved up to the state seriate...
...Impellitteri. Democrat Impellitteri, 53, is a likable, cigar-smoking politician who has been in his profession so long that even his casual conversations manage to sound like scraps from political speeches. In the 1950 elections, he bucked his own party machine and won, running as an independent on a ticket titled Experience Party. By now, with three years of distributing City Hall patronage behind him, he has considerable Democratic Party support...
...pinball machine, and features Cartoonist Al Capp as a wisecracking moderator who fires questions at a guest panel, including a mystery guest disguised as one of Capp's comic-strip characters (currently Hairless Joe). The show has a particularly noisy studio audience because each member holds a ticket with the name of one of the four panelists, and the backers of the winning contestant divide $2,000. Sponsor: Carter Products (Little Liver Pills, Rise, Arrid...
...German people for unity in freedom," the foreign ministers invited the Soviet Union to a short four-power conference "about the end of September." The timing was perfect. With a Big Four conference slated to meet a few weeks after the election, Adenauer can campaign on the unity ticket without abandoning his endorsement of EDC. This should win him votes. But because the conference would not meet until after the polls are closed, Adenauer is less likely to be subjected to embarrassing Soviet "offers," whose rejection might lose him votes...
Travel Credit. To speed up railroad ticket purchases, a charge-plate credit card system was started by the Chesapeake & Ohio Railway so that tickets can be charged by mail or wire...