Word: bandwagoners
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...said that Argentine Consul Luis Zervino had warned him that Chile's situation was grave, that it could be mended only by a military government on the Argentine model. Zervino had told him that a revolutionary movement was under way and advised him to get on the bandwagon. Zervino had also said that the revolt might be headed by Ibañez or by General Jorge Berguno (now in Buenos Aires, a fugitive from Chilean justice...
...second movie on the double-bill is "Rose of the Yukon," and it's awful. But it is interesting in that it shows how producers of "B" pictures have jumped on the "hate-Russia" bandwagon. Instead of cattle rustlers or foreign baddies of obscure allegiance, this touching and horrible little epic of the far north has a real live Soviet Union as the agent of evil. One Russian thug is even made up to look just like Stalin, to clear up any doubts the audience might have...
Local traders are missing no opportunity to jump on the bandwagon and envelop themselves in the traditional Christmas baubles, in order to catch undergraduate trade before the December 19 rush decimates the cash-bearing population. To set the pace, the city of Cambridge has already decorated its lamp posts. Yesterday workers finished wrapping the poles with strands of laurel and aluminum, and hung the final pine wreath on top. The cost of this decoration is met by the city with the help of the Harvard Square Business Men's Association...
...bandwagon pressure of the public-opinion polls, which encouraged many waverers to vote for Underdog Truman just to slow up the expected Dewey landslide, and caused many overconfident Republicans to stay away from the polls entirely...
Misreporting hit a new low on the West Coast. Los Angeles papers, with a two-hour time differential in their favor, can rush eastern returns into print before the polls on the Coast close. The temptation for pro-Dewey papers to stampede some voters aboard the bandwagon was irresistible. Cried a headline in Hearst's afternoon Herald & Express: DEWEY VICTORY SEEN AS VOTE LEAD GROWS. The fact: some small New England towns had gone for Dewey. A later headline: DEWEY SWEEPING THE COUNTRY. The tabloid Mirror was equally sly with EARLY TREND GIVES DEWEY LEAD. It was based...