Word: bandwagons
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Vandenberg sawed wood, kept mum in Grand Rapids. Texas newshawks held an "Evil Old Men's" dinner in honor of John Garner. In Baltimore, Montana's Senator Wheeler said pretty things of Franklin Roosevelt. In New York City, Thomas E. Dewey polished up a GOPresidential bandwagon, prepared to start it rolling in Minneapolis...
Last week it appeared that 1,000,000 U. S. Protestant pacifists (the estimate of peace groups) might have to move over on the bandwagon to make room for some Catholics. Evidence during the fortnight...
Haven Parker, Maguire's opponent, led the former second-string varsity football player by a large margin in the primaries. James H. Cunningham, the runner up in the primaries, recently jumped aboard the Maguire bandwagon, so he feels he has "a fifty-fifty chance of winning the election...
...FORTUNE'S September survey deflated all 1940 balloons except Franklin Roosevelt's, found that no honest-to-goodness Republican bandwagon exists. Polices were asked first: If you had your choice in 1940, would you choose Mr. Roosevelt or someone else? Answers: 34.9% would choose Mr. Roosevelt, 53.3% would not, 11.8% didn't know. Who else? was the next question. The polices said: Don't know, 63.8%; Dewey, 9.6% ; Garner, 8% ; Vandenberg, 6.1% and on down to a vanishing point with Taft, Hull, Hoover, McNutt, Landon...
...General Harry Wallace Blair. A number of other sponsors were devout men who were well aware that MRA was a Buchmanite enterprise; among them Senator Borah and Attorney General Murphy, who said: "I know nothing about [MRA] except what is good." But a majority of the Hon. sponsors were bandwagon jumpers and politicians whose attitude was, "Hell, it's not controversial, is it?" Republican Minority Leader Joseph William Martin Jr., who had signed a statement for the MRA meeting's program ("Moral Re-Armament is a great need of the day"), said: "Sure, I'm for Moral...