Word: bandwagons
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...success as Labor chairman. Undoubtedly, her efforts and those of her steering committee, headed by Massachusetts' Arthur Healey, last week helped get Wages-&-Hours its hearing on the floor, but the real reasons for the sensational transformation of Aunt Mary's capsized applecart into a genuine political bandwagon lay elsewhere. They were: 1) a letter to her from Franklin Roosevelt last fortnight in effect urging members to heed her petition, and 2) the Florida primary (see p. 77), which had the result of urging members to heed Franklin Roosevelt...
...blame for the State of Oklahoma's rolls appeared to rest on: 1) political subordinates, 2) Indians, 3) the possibility that Oklahoma's politicians had encouraged old folks to confuse their program with the Townsend plan. Whatever the cause, Oklahoma's oldsters had leaped onto the bandwagon with a vengeance. One pensioner, a physician, had just bought a new Ford for cash. A pensioned blacksmith owned his own shop, a car, two lots, owed no debts or back taxes. Of 47 ineligibles on the rolls in one county, 20 were not 65 years of age. Among...
...defeated for the North Dakota Governorship In 1920, but got into the Legislature. As a lawyer he was sharp enough to become the partner of William Gibbs McAdoo in California, where Jefty moved in 1925. As a Democrat he was one of the first to climb on the Roosevelt bandwagon in California in 1932. Last month Jefty O'Connor handed Franklin Roosevelt his resignation as titular head of the national bank system, possibly because he plans to run for Governor of California. Last week Jefty dispatched to Congress the 75th annual report of the Comptroller of the Currency...
...proves as big as his job, J. David Stern Sr. will be able to turn nearly all his attention to his New York Post, which in four years he has boosted from 86,000 circulation to nearly 300,000, by tooting one of the loudest horns on the Roosevelt bandwagon and by giving away (for coupons and cash) a steady stream of dictionaries, atlases, Dickens' works and medical advice books...
...London bureau of Associated Press reported that "all authoritative sources here think Great Britain is ready to climb belatedly on the Franco bandwagon. . " . There are two reasons...