Word: bandwagons
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Dallin argues that Communist strength at home and abroad is based primarily on a "bandwagon effect" created by belief in Communist invincibility, and not on the desire of impoverished peoples to improve their lot. Hence he believes that the United States should concentrate, not on Point Four programs and the like, but on causing the Soviet to lose face--thus destroying the myth of Russian invincibility...
...musical hits to feed a hungry demand, the leading companies have gone off in new directions. Columbia has fattened its current catalogue (Kiss Me Kate, Out of This World, Gentlemen Prefer Blondes) by recording older shows in their original spirit, mostly with new performers: 1931's The Bandwagon, 1934's Anything Goes (both with Mary Martin). Awaiting release: 1940's Pal Joey with the original's Vivienne Segal, and 1934's Conversation Piece with Author Noel Coward and Lily Pons. Decca is turning out record albums of straight plays with only minor cuts...
Excitement mounted in Rio. Though Getulio was not expected to arrive till early this week, bandwagon-jumping politicos staged one banquet of homage after another. Cardinal Dom Jaime Camara announced a special Mass commemorating Vargas' election, although the church press had backed the Brigadeiro during the campaign. The staid Jockey Club said it would revive its annual "Prix Getulio Vargas," which was dropped from the racing calendar in 1946. At week's end a new samba was sweeping to the top of the pre-Carnival popularity list...
Outside Ohio, he was a political nobody-a bookkeeper who, in 1936, had slipped in as state auditor on the tail gate of the Roosevelt bandwagon. He had almost no backing from the regular Democratic organization. He did have a following of state employees, auditors and examiners, and he rarely if ever forgot a name or a face. He had organized and supported a Columbus softball team named "Ferguson's Auditors," and annually he mailed out 150,000 Christmas cards bearing photographs of his handsome wife and their growing family of eight children...
...Republican opponent, ex-Congressman Joseph Talbot of Naugatuck (Yale LL.B. '25), another old school politico who was picked partly because he was, like McMahon, a Roman Catholic. Big and old-shoe friendly, Talbot toured the state in a blue-and-yellow sound truck emblazoned: "No red on my bandwagon," and accused Democrats of being naive about Communists...