Word: bandwagons
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...years-the game of Dr. Gustav Stresemann, "The Spirit of Locarno" and the Young Plan. When Dr. Schacht thought that game was up he resigned as President of the Reichsbank and appeared in the news less frequently-suddenly was found to be sitting on Adolf Hitler's bandwagon as President of the Reichsbank again (TIME, March...
Party workers grumbled last year when, after leading his Old Guardsmen aboard the Landon bandwagon even before Cleveland, Boss Roraback violated his lifelong teaching, visited the Democratic State Convention, made a laudatory speech, for their candidate, Governor Wilbur Lucius ("Uncle Toby") Cross, former dean of Yale's Graduate School and now, aged 75, serving his fourth term as Connecticut's Governor...
Refreshed by three years as well-paid president of the Maryland Casualty Co., politically sagacious Silliman Evans, 43, who left the vice-presidency of American Airways in 1932 to run Vice President Garner's Presidential boom and then rode the Roosevelt bandwagon into the Fourth Assistant Postmaster Generalcy, last fortnight announced himself as the new publisher of the Nashville Tennessean whose evening and Sunday editions compete with the Banner. Behind capable Publisher Evans' roly-poly person loomed the paternal bulk of huge Jesse Jones and the RFC (TIME, Oct. 21, 1935, et seq.) whose interest in the Tennessean...
...jumped on the movie bandwagon and directed over one hundred short talkies for Warner Brothers. A 5800 mile drive through the stock theatres of New England last summer ended two years of talent scouting for Twentieth Century - Fox, and after whipping "Come Across" into shape he will head straight for Hollywood. When he took "Anna Christie" to London in 1923 he picked up a lot of information about the English stage which will be put to use in the trans-oceanic episodes of the Pudding show...
True, Mr. Lewis was apparently taken aback by the speed with which his lieutenants moved in the automobile industry. He was "going after" the big bad boys in the steel industry, he announced some months ago. But now he has agily leaped the automobile bandwagon and seized the reins. And yesterday came a statement whose inspiration is obvious, one bristling with demands all the way from a thirty-hour week to union representation...