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Word: bandwagons (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1930-1939
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Steiwer's address climaxed a day of important developments here. Governor Alf Landon's bandwagon, temporarily halted by the refusal of the big Pennsylvania and New York delegations to pledge complete support of the Kansan, forged head when the results of an informal poll of the delegates taken by newspapermen became known. London was critical with 486 votes on the first ballot not counting many of the so called 'favorite son" states which are expected to switch to him. Horah was given approximately 70 votes and Know about the same number in the poll...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Crimson Convention Delegate Visages Steiwer as Vice - Presidential Nominee | 6/10/1936 | See Source »

...believe that Hearst as an ally of any politician is a form of political suicide," declared one of Alf Landon's supporters, wise old William Allen White of Emporia last month. "Hearst is a hitch-hiker on the Landon bandwagon. Sooner or later Landon will have to throw him off or feel Hearst's gun in his ribs. For his own good luck-the sooner the better...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: REPUBLICANS: Kansas Candidate | 5/18/1936 | See Source »

...Baldwin Bandwagon. In a last minute reverse and spurt to climb on the Baldwin Bandwagon, peppery Lieut. Colonel Leopold Stennet Amery, who a few days before had flayed the Prime Minister for "playing with fire" in his threat of sanctions at Geneva, rushed off to his Conservative constituency at Birmingham and went the whole hog in fulsome praise of portly Squire Baldwin whose hobby is raising pigs. All last year Colonel Amery and Mr. Churchill fought the Prime Minister from within his Party on the India Bill. "Winnie" leaped for the band wagon in plenty of time (TIME, Sept...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: GREAT BRITAIN: 10 to 1 | 11/11/1935 | See Source »

...ancient Greece have become primarily a dream in the brain of Greece's ex-Grand Old Man Eleutherios ("Liberty") Venizelos whose revolution of republicans and Greek islanders was smashed last spring by monarchical mainlanders (TIME, March 25). Since then Greek politicians have been scrambling on the monarchist bandwagon but always with reservations about actually recalling Greece's ex-King George...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: GREECE: Royal Recall | 10/21/1935 | See Source »

...Where are America's friends? There is an alliance between France and Russia that will soon be a three-power pact with U. S. the third party. Instead of playing down Russia and ignoring France it would be smarter for TIME to be first on the bandwagon and start the cheering for America's potential allies. BARBARA FLETCHER...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Letters, Sep. 2, 1935 | 9/2/1935 | See Source »

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