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...really?" gasped the first expert. "Well, he hasn't get much to lose, but I think I'll still get on the CRIMSON bandwagon...
...course of this cultural marathon Persia had ups & downs. She was conquered successively by the Greeks, Arabs and Mongols; she was sideswiped by nearly every artistic bandwagon that rumbled through Europe and Asia. But though her artists copied Genghis Khan's Chinese painters, Greek sculpture and the primitives of 14th-Century Italians, they made their Persian versions as characteristically Persian as an Isfahan carpet. The Persians concentrated on decoration, distorted their figures and landscapes into semi-abstract patterns, prized neatly filled space more than neatly copied nature...
Term Ill's bandwagon began to roll last week in New Hampshire. In California, Ohio, Illinois, Tennessee, the wheels were being oiled...
...role: pacifier. Problem Mr. Ickes had come to pacify: California's besieged Governor Culbert Olson wanted to name & head a Term III ticket in the May 7 primary. So did Warhorse William Gibbs McAdoo, now a shipping magnate. A split progressive vote would put sand in the bandwagon's axles, might let John Garner's delegates romp home ahead. A Donald Duck for publicity purposes only, Secretary Ickes now quacked hard sense to a dozen assorted California Democrats in 36 crowded hours, got them to agree on a consolidated headless ticket, thus sending 48 harmony delegates...
Illinois, Wisconsin. Janizariat strategy calls for rolling up a clearcut Roosevelt victory in the New Hampshire March 12 primary (no opposition). Next step: to roll the bandwagon through the Wisconsin primary (April 2), then through Illinois. Into both these primaries stubborn old Jack Garner has stuck his red neck. Janizariat belief is that, after these two elections, the Vice President will be politically as dead as a doornail. The Kelly-Nash-Horner machine in Illinois has been told to pile up an overwhelming majority...