Word: bandwagons
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Morocco, was North Africa's most truculent military figure under Vichy. A shrewd man with twinkling eyes, he is feared and respected by the natives. He has shown no warmth toward Germany, none toward the U.S. or Britain. Last week he climbed on Giraud's unity bandwagon...
President Lowell refused to hop on the bandwagon which was heading for big-time football in the 1920's. Groups of alumni approached him with the proposition of floating a sizable bond issue to finance an enormous new Stadium. But financial acumen and antipathy to perverting sport for the sake of recreation to a money-making racket led him to turn down the suggestion, though the action earned many enemies...
...because he controls the French Navy and is the official representative of Vichy France in Africa. If he should divert the prestige given him by the Allies into channels where it might gain him the support of the French people, he could become dangerous. Let him haul the Allied bandwagon, but keep a firm check on the reins...
...back to Sabby, from a fairly interesting opening three months ago, the band has become a Boston sensation. Sparked by Al Morgan's wonderful bass playing, Jackie Field's allotting, Sabby recently won the Fitch Bandwagon Contest for the best local band. You may be startled when you see only eight musicians, but you'll be even more startled when they play. Due to clever and exciting orchestrations, the band sounds twice as big. If it's true that Joe Thomas, who is a fine trumpeter, is joining Sabby, the band may easily become the biggest thing since Basic...
More dangerous than these groups to future Republican foreign policy are those anti-democratic forces that have attached themselves to the G.O.P. bandwagon during the last two or three years. The Hitler-sympathizing leaders in this country, from Coughlin to Pelley, have joined Republican ranks at election time thinking that the best way to foster their cause, for the inoment, was to back the most isolationist major Party. This was a marriage few Republicans liked, and now, at least for the time being, they have broken it. But these same insidious forces will be watchfully waiting to use the Party...