Word: bandwagoners
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...headlines scream, frantically milling crowds, for the first time since the Armistice, buy London papers so fast that presses whirling at top speed cannot meet the demand. In the House of Commons lobbies, politicians think the public reaction is hostile to the King and scamper for the Baldwin bandwagon. "I was for the King when it was purely a question whether he should be permitted to marry whomsoever he should choose," says beetling-browed Labor Radical James Maxton, "but when it is a dispute between him and the Government, I cast my lot with the Government...
Among Chambermen the Dry Goods proposal for a little NRA would find little sympathy. Moreover, the Dry Goods Association has actually been on the Roosevelt bandwagon for a good part of the New Deal for the simple reason that the New Deal has been good for retail trade...
...bandwagon of amateur football has been wobbling dangerously of late, but few of its enemies have expressed the desire to topple it over in the crude manner of the undergraduates at Charlottesville. It is one thing to call a spade a spade, but quite another to show Virginia's complete lack of respect for the other side of the question. That university should realize that the remedy for a poor football team is to concentrate upon the development of a better one and not the attitude of many American schools who desire to have "the best team money...
...quickly recognize these principles as the basis of Peek's 15 years of agricultural agitation, as the basis of the McNary-Haugen bill he instigated and lobbied through Congress to be twice vetoed by President Coolidge. In 1932, said Mr. Peek last week, he rushed to the Roosevelt bandwagon because these same principles were stated in the Democratic platform and reiterated by Nominee Roosevelt in campaign speeches. "I was fooled by President Roosevelt's promises; I believe that Governor Landon is the kind of man who keeps his promises," concluded George Peek...
...Republicans eager to lick the New Deal, any bandwagon was a terrible temp tation. The angry, selfish old men of the political sea could not control their follow ers. Charles D. Hilles, boss of New York Republicanism, arrived, for the first time in years, without his delegation in his vest pocket. Fortnight ago one of Mr. Hilles' four delegates-at-large, Mrs. Robert Low Bacon, brisk wife of swank Long Island's Congressman "Bob" Bacon, announced that the women vice chairmen of most of New York's Republican county committees were for Landon and that New York...