Word: ticketing
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...rest of his testimony Comrade Browder warmed over his story, told in 1936. of the offer of a man named Davidson (who said he represented a half-dozen rich Republicans) to enrich the party by $250,000 if it named President Roosevelt on its 1936 ticket, declared the party had turned toward conservatism since 1935, discoursed on its tenets, tactics, tanglements...
...resourceful Miss Alice T. Scheh, a Brooklyn high-school stenography teacher, who had an adventure to report to her pupils when she faced them bright & early one morning this week. Having spent the summer traveling alone in Iran and Iraq, Miss Scheh arrived in Italy with a return steamship ticket and a flat purse. Her ship developed "engine trouble," failed to sail. So did other ships to which the Italian Line transferred her. Unable to get either passage or refund from the Italian Line, she hurried to Havre and laid siege to the U. S. Lines office. After ten hours...
...nomination. On a strict "no strings" platform, Mr. Reed accepted tentatively, if a $25,000 campaign fund were raised without macing the utilities, gamblers, contractors, racketeers. Hampered by this restriction, leaders did not find enough funds. Mr. Reed withdrew promptly; filing-day came & went with no Democrats on the ticket...
...Wilson had been an automobile manufacturer, Sunday blue-law spy, contractor, justice of the peace, crime investigator. Politically he was all things to all men. A violent Wilsonian Democrat (his oldest son-secretary is named Woodrow), in 1933 he was elected Philadelphia's Controller on a coalition ticket, next year supported Democrat George H. Earle for Governor of Pennsylvania, year after that was elected Mayor as a Republican, last year sought (and lost) the Democratic U. S. Senatorial nomination against Earle. As Mayor, Wilson was good, bad. Although he was twice indicted for malfeasance in office (one indictment remained...
...hours later Claude Elkins felt "sort of cold and sticky all over." In his hand was a telegram informing him that he was the only ticket holder of the winning combination, that he had won the whole pool of $10,772.40-largest pari-mutuel payoff in the history of U. S. horse racing...