Word: bandwagoners
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Speaking under the banner of the Student Defense League, whose aim is the defeat of Hitlerism, Merriman reminded the audience that the past year has seen a mass movement to jump on the bandwagon, and that at least one half of the teaching staff at the University is helping the cause. "Harvard is now 99 per cent in favor of helping to check the Germans," he stated...
...case the Arabs want to be on the winning side, Ireland emphasized, citing the authentic story of one Arab sheik during the last war who changed sides five times before riding to victory on the Allied bandwagon...
...turning up with one sparking run after the other. Princeton ex-football captain, Tom Mountain, was in real form and scored four tries on long runs from his football position. Kenny Cuthhertson, Phil Markwart, Marsh Holleb, Cy Taylor, "Captain Billy" Waters and Johnny Randolf also joined the scoring bandwagon with a try apiece...
...only is Congress behind Avila Camacho, but the press in Mexico loudly sings his praises. Just before he took office, ex-&-exiled President Calles announced from California that he was behind him. Almazanistas have boarded the bandwagon. That wry little labor leader, Vicente Lombardo Toledano, whom Avila Camacho repudiated before his election, has echoed his disapproval of "crazy strikes" and begun trying to negotiate a settlement of a miners' strike in Nueva Rosita, Coahuila...
Composer Shostakovich has been on & off the careening bandwagon of the Soviet music party line. When he was off, his work was denounced as "un-Soviet, unwholesome, cheap, eccentric, tuneless and Leftist" by Pravda, which probably spoke for Musicritic Stalin. Shostakovich's fifth symphony, a thoughtful and tuneful glorification of the October Revolution, got him back on the bandwagon. Since then (1937) he has worked in the Leningrad Conservatory. The symphony which Philadelphia heard last week sounded as if Shostakovich's seat were secure-even though the symphony lacked a choral apotheosis of Lenin which the composer...