Word: bandwagoners
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...through the enormous Taft-for-President suite. Genial Dave Ingalls, Bob Taft's cousin and chief strategist (TIME, Jan. 21), clucked over the guests and shooed them toward cocktails, Wisconsin cheese and steaming sausages. Influential G.O.P. men were ushered into an inner sanctum, urged to jump on the bandwagon while there was still time, and assured that Taft was a cinch to win the Republican nomination on the first ballot...
...time the last gavel was rapped, the San Francisco weather had changed and so had the political climate. Ike's campaign was airborne, and Taft's flying bandwagon had taken the stiffest jolt to date. Hardy G.O.P. professionals were not likely to be swayed by either a breach of manners or a fervent speech. But they were just the ones to notice the little shifts, such as the new cordiality between the Ikemen and Earl Warren (who controls 70 California delegates) and the fact that the galleries liked...
Campaign Manager Ingalls has visited campaign headquarters only once. His job is with the candidate on the road, making friends and influencing delegates, writing detailed reports on what he sees and hears, oiling the wheels of the Taft bandwagon throughout the nation. Ingalls is Bob Taft's Jim Farley...
...received a pay boost, undergraduates in the College employment plan a preview of things to come, and the weary in inmates of Widener a row of fluorescent lights. But it the Undergraduate Activities Committee's concessions to the Student Council rules petition were an attempt to get on the bandwagon, they were too little and too late...
...great masses of the American people" and repeated his hope "that he will be the Democratic nominee." Some top Administration Democrats got a wild gleam in their eyes and talked of a "plan." The plan presupposes that Taft will build up an unbeatable lead and Ike's G.O.P. bandwagon will grind to a stop. Then selected Democrats will begin calling for Eisenhower to lead the nation against Taftism. Eventually, Harry Truman will break silence and exhort the Democrats to draft Ike as a great gesture of "nonpartisan Americanism...