Search Details

Word: bandwagons (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: all
Sort By: most recent first (reverse)


Usage:

...long-range farm program, therefore, should look beyond guaranteeing income toward inducing farmers to hop the industrial bandwagon. Foreclosed mortgages or governmental evictions are not the ways to do this. Locating new industries near farm areas is. Some farm states, notably Mississippi and South Carolina, have already tried to balance agriculture with industry by offering low taxes and ready-built plants to industries that will offer farm labor new employment...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: How To Get Them Off The Farm | 2/19/1953 | See Source »

Last month Editor Fedoseev tried to climb back on the bandwagon by publishing in Izvestia a series of articles extravagantly praising another economic treatise (TIME, Oct. 13) by a more reliable author -J. Stalin. This treatise directly attacked what was now tarred as the Voznesensky thesis: there are still economic laws, said Stalin, "which take place independently of the will of man"; people who don't realize this are "dazzled by the extraordinary success of the Soviet system, and they begin to imagine that the Soviet Government can 'do anything.' " (Only J. Stalin, of all Russians, dares...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: RUSSIA: Praise for Loose Opinions | 1/19/1953 | See Source »

...staff woke up one morning--if it had gone to bed the night before--to find that the paper was 50 years old. It was a hard-earned maturity, and the Crimeds looked back with pride, as various and sundry thousands climbed on the bandwagon of congratulation...

Author: By Richard A. Burgheim, | Title: The Crime---Action and Achievement | 1/8/1953 | See Source »

...already overloaded bandwagon pulled to a groaning stop in front of the Paramount theatre this week to let The Turning Point show us how a professor named John Conroy would have handled the Kefauver Committee. In the process another unnamed, though typically midwestern city is purged of its civic bruises by the two fisted Conroy Crime Committee...

Author: By Roskry J. Schoenukrg, | Title: The Turning Point | 11/19/1952 | See Source »

...beyond hoping that lightning might strike for the Vice Presidency. Hicks Griffiths, Soapy and Moody swung Michigan to Estes Kefauver after the first ballot. This, too, proved to be a disastrous piece of political miscalculation. On the third ballot, Michigan scrambled on to Stevenson's bandwagon. Said Hicks Griffiths sadly, as he answered to the poll of the delegation: "I give up. Stevenson...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: MICHIGAN: Prodigy's Progress | 9/15/1952 | See Source »

Previous | 139 | 140 | 141 | 142 | 143 | 144 | 145 | 146 | 147 | 148 | 149 | 150 | 151 | 152 | 153 | 154 | 155 | 156 | 157 | 158 | 159 | Next