Word: bandwagons
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Construction of St. Mark's Catholic parochial school there was held up for two days by pickets until the contractor, N. A. Thomas of Racine, trucked away 34 pieces of Kohler plumbing worth $3,500. In some areas even state and municipal governments have hopped on the boycott bandwagon. The Massachusetts Legislature and Boston's City Council condemned purchases from Kohler. So have the councils of Bridgeport, Waterbury, and Ansonia, Conn., and Lincoln Park, Mich...
Breaking the Bandwagon. After a ten-minute arm's length chat with Stevenson in Truman's Sheraton-Blackstone Hotel suite, Harry Truman held a press conference, and let go kersplat with his first great crusher of the week. "I will," he said delightedly, "let the people know for whom I stand before the convention meets." A newsman asked if Truman was just trying to baffle every one. Chortled Harry: "That is exactly right...
Averell Harriman's followers, who had based all their hopes on Truman's backing, took immediate heart at another Truman press conference remark: "I am not a bandwagon fellow. Don't get that in your head." Later, Stevenson's supporters found cause for optimism when Truman appeared before the Democratic Platform Committee and recommended a civil-rights plank along Adlai's moderation lines...
...first big hint came when Truman said caustically: "I have little faith in the value of the bandwagon operation nor in the reliability of polls-political polls." Truman made his decision even more obvious with the words: "I realize that my expression of a choice at this time will cause disappointment in some and may cause resentment in others, but against the mounting crises in the world, I know that this convention must name a man who has the experience and the ability to act as President immediately upon assuming that office, without risking a period of costly and dangerous...
Arkansas (26): Officially uncommitted, the delegates figure to follow Governor Orval Faubus onto the bandwagon, give 26 unit-rule votes to Stevenson...