Word: ticket
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Dates: during 1940-1940
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...Massachusetts man heard all he could stand, ran and planked down his savings ($3.25) for a railway ticket. He traveled 60 miles before he found out he was fleeing a bogeyman...
With Franklin D. Roosevelt unopposed on Nebraska's Democratic ticket, safe and simple was the strategy of Democratic politicians. If Mr. Roosevelt decided to run for a Third Term, they would be in the right corner. If he declined, they would have 14 free delegates...
...interest of Democrats was in the Senatorial primary between stately, rumbling Senator Edward R. Burke and ponderous, conservative Governor Robert L. Cochran. Conservatives approve Governor Cochran's financial policies, and he has managed not to antagonize New Dealers. Senator Burke, elected six years ago on a New Deal ticket, has consistently opposed New Deal legislation, though his chief campaign cry has been that he has generally supported the Administration. His record in the past three years in the Senate: on 42 bills that mattered, he has voted eight times with the New Deal, 34 times against...
...Milwaukee, Madison, Wis., burning up energy, microphones and the New Deal. The hard little attorney with the shoebrush mustache continued to make the best Republican speeches U. S. citizens have heard in many a day, continued also to be allotted the No. 2 slot, at most, by professional GOP ticket makers. The Dewey keynote-that the New Deal means defeatism-still echoed in the U. S. like a shout down a well...
...version of the 1920 smoke-filled room (out of which came Warren G. Harding), will invite in Pennsylvania's Oilman Joe Pew, who also bosses Delaware's Du Pont Republicans. By maneuvering Mr. Pew, the liberals hope then to bring forth a really strong GOP 1940 ticket: i.e., Supreme Court Justices Owen Roberts or Harlan Stone to head it; perhaps Oregon's McNary or New York's Dewey as No. 2. Their most audacious dream: for President, McNary; for Vice President, LaGuardia-a ticket they guarantee would convince: 1) Franklin Roosevelt that he is too tired...