Word: ticket
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Dates: during 1940-1940
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...Kolster Radio pool while suckers lost their shirts; how Dick Whitney, pegging a German bond issue, waited till the Morgans were out before he "pulled the plug"; how the Stock Exchange of 1929 really worked-the New Deal was able to write its own ticket for Federal regulation of security issues and trading...
Very occasionally, students who persistently ignore the parking rules and fail to bring their tickets to General Alfred's office. Are charged on their term bill for $2 per ticket, Yard police explained...
...brisk, paunchy Senator Joseph F. Guffey lost his grip on the Pennsylvania Democratic machine, which he had carefully tooled along through long years jammed with hostile Republican traffic. Instead of climbing down with a grin, he cocked a snook at the machine's new leaders, put up a ticket...
...TICKET-Eugene O'Brien-Doubleday, Doran ($2). Late of the U.S. Navy (machinist's mate), hard-muscled Author O'Brien wrote as honestly about sailors in his first novel (He Swung and He Missed) as Steinbeck does about farm hands. This time he adds considerable data not advertised on the recruiting posters-of life below deck, in port, under good captains and bad-but goes on a spree with his plot in which curly-headed Kelly falls for a sweet girl, his pal Mac is court-martialed for theft, another pal is taken off to the asylum...
...suggestion to the Democrats for 1940-why not Hull for President and F. D. R. for Vice President? This would avoid (not evade) the third-term difficulty, yet give the ticket the Roosevelt magic. It would also be interesting to see Mr. Roosevelt presiding over Taft, Vandenberg, Glass, etc. This plan would also release abstaining Mr. Garner for some sort of Boys' Work...