Word: ticket
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Return of "Sure Mike." For Mike Conner, who led the ticket, this was a return to political prestige. An honor graduate of Yale's Law School (1913), Speaker of Mississippi's House at 23, ambitious Mike Conner was the best Governor of Mississippi in many a decade. When he took office in 1932, the Treasury had a $13,500,000 deficit inherited from the Bilbo administration, state bonds were selling at 70? on the dollar, state employes and schoolteachers were unpaid, state colleges were unaccredited...
...many New Deal Democrats who do not subscribe to such a program, also many aspiring Republicans. Other millions of Americans are nonsubscribers. It's too bad to emasculate the word 'Fascist' by using it on persons whose only offense is that they vote the wrong ticket...
...organization grew, held regional meetings. Fortnight ago, in Manhattan, Watson's R.P.P.A. warned the G.O.P. that isolationism means defeat in 1944. Said Member Mayo A. Shattuck, president of the Massachusetts Bar Association: it would be a calamity if the election of a Republican ticket should mean "another gang of inward-turning, narrow-minded stuffed shirts...
...again upon a collapsing suitcase into Atlanta, and decided to take a chance on reporting a day late, and get some sleep, which I did in a fine hotel there. Having previously made arrangements for Pullman reservations to Wilmington, that evening as traintime drew near, I checked at the ticket window to make sure of my berth. To my utter amazement, my reservation had been taken over by a man who was visiting his aunt in Wilmington. Once again the suitcase and the coach...
...years Mazie has presided at the ticket cage of the Venice Theater, on Park Row, where the Bowery begins. "Some days I don't know which this is, a movie-pitcher theater or a flophouse. . . . Pitchers with shooting in them are bad for business. They wake up the customers." But she adds with pride: "Nobody ever got loused up in the Venice...