Word: ticket
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Dates: during 1940-1940
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...ballot that confronted Wisconsin voters was a complex maze. For Roosevelt there were two slates: one an anti-Hoover-Democrat group headed by Gustave Keller, Appleton lawyer, chummy with La Folletteers; one a "Roosevelt-Farley" ticket, headed by Charles E. Broughton, Sheboygan politician, made up of machine Democrats. For John Nance Garner was a slate bossed by John J. Slocum, Assembly clerk, expected to attract many an anti-Term III voter who would rather protest a Roosevelt re-election than choose between Messrs. Dewey and Vandenberg...
...none is handed him, he seeks it out. But last week he turned up in San Francisco's Hotel Mark Hopkins in a new role: pacifier. Problem Mr. Ickes had come to pacify: California's besieged Governor Culbert Olson wanted to name & head a Term III ticket in the May 7 primary. So did Warhorse William Gibbs McAdoo, now a shipping magnate. A split progressive vote would put sand in the bandwagon's axles, might let John Garner's delegates romp home ahead. A Donald Duck for publicity purposes only, Secretary Ickes now quacked hard sense...
...England. Rapidly, methodically, the khaki-clad figures handed their green passbooks to a slim officer in the uniform of the Royal Navy, swarmed past him to board a train. An unhurrying sergeant looked up and snapped into startled attention. The naval officer was George VI, "filling in" as a ticket collector to learn how it was done...
Claiming to know enough Harvard men "to put the average Yard cop to shame," modest "Pop" Garnet, 225 pound, 6 foot ticket-taker and bouncer at the Raymor Ballroom in Boston, last night celebrated his birthday by stating that his life-long ambition is to be on the University police force...
...would not run again unless the Germans overrun England; that Cordell Hull is his choice for successor, is safe, can be elected; that the Vice Presidency lay between Bob Jackson, Paul McNutt, Burt Wheeler; that Jim Farley would not be a sound Vice Presidential candidate on a Hull ticket. Mr. Roosevelt supposedly said that Farley "has done more for me politically than any other living person, not even excepting my wife." But people might "say we were using Cordell Hull as a stalking horse for the Pope...