Word: ticket
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Dates: during 1940-1940
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Harvard has long been a reactionary on the subject of an Ivy League. Traditional Athletic Association policy has been to exploit our strong position and write our own football ticket for the less powerful colleges (weaker in finances and prestige). The H. A. A. cracked the whip and schools like Dartmouth had to get in line or face possible exclusion from our schedule...
...League requirements would have to be modeled after the much neglected Tri-Presidents' agreement, and here for the last time Harvard could write her own ticket-thereafter, she would be one of a group of equals. The strict code would find willing acceptance among enthusiastic colleges; even Pennsylvania and Cornell might agree to do an about face and become suitable Ivy bedfellows...
...little money. The great bosses-Tom Taggart of Indiana, Charles Murphy of Tammany-knew that defeat was in the air. The local politicians hoped only to save something from the impending ruin. Arrangements were perfunctory. The candidate, with no expectation of victory, worked on toward the day when the ticket of Cox and Roosevelt would carry eleven States, get 127 electoral and 9,147,353 popular votes...
...most U. S. voters will vote either the straight Republican or the straight Democratic ticket. But five other parties have Presidential candidates in the field. The piccolos of these minorities were drowned out by the brass bands of the two major political parties...
...stage to create a new comedy combination. Though, it is doubtful whether the partnership is so lucky for the film audience, the story surely gives Providence a thoroughly outstanding workout. Ginger Rogers' good fortune starts off with the gift of a $350 gown, includes $6000 won on a sweepstakes ticket and ends up with Ronald Colman as her grand prize. Ronald gets Ginger, and that's good enough luck for anyone...