Word: bandwagons
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: during 1940-1949
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
Texan Creager's action was significant of the growing rush to the Dewey bandwagon. Heretofore, Ohio's Bricker was generally understood to have inherited the support of the South's "kept" Republican delegations which Ohio's Taft acquired in 1940. Some political dopesters now concluded that Warren had everything that was coming to him, that Dewey's running mate will turn out to be John Bricker-who is now the only candidate, Republican or Democratic, who has thrown his hat into the ring and jumped after...
...Rush Begins. Naturally there was a certain amount of rushing to the Dewey bandwagon. To many it looked like Dewey on the first ballot-a nomination received absolutely on his own terms, and without any commitments. The favorite ticket: Dewey and California's Governor Earl Warren...
...plaintive newspaper editorial writers) Southern thought was in favor of keeping the Negro in his traditional place. Florida's New Deal stalwart, Senator Claude Pepper, had been having great difficulty in his primary race for reelection. Now, liberal or no liberal, he hopped nimbly on the bandwagon: "The South will allow nothing to impair white supremacy." Said Louisiana's Senator John H. Overton: "The South, at all costs, will maintain the rule of white supremacy." And a desperate call to arms came from another candidate for reelection: Senator Ellison D. ("Cotton Ed") Smith of South Carolina. He told...
Sixty strong, they pushed into the Ohio Governor's small suite in the Mayflower Hotel. Here, after all the humdrum bureau interviews, was fair game: a real, live presidential candidate on a self-built bandwagon. The pink-cheeked candidate looked as if he expected a rough ride...
...CzechoSlovakia's foresighted, Moscow-minded President, Edward Benes, is on the Russian bandwagon in Eastern Europe. During the Teheran conferences he was in Moscow waiting to sign a 20-year mutual assistance and defense treaty with the Soviet Union...