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...country is in for a long era of economic stability. Advocates of paying large veterans' bonuses with printing-press money and supporters of high-powered sales taxes will look elsewhere for aid in the future. Randolph Hearst has sowed his wild oats and is now definitely on the bandwagon of liberalism and laissez-faire democracy...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: TATTERED ENSIGN | 4/23/1935 | See Source »

...that British India and the Native States should unite in one vast All-India Federation of 350,000,000 souls. At the First India Round Table Conference the Native States' turbaned and bejeweled Rajas and Maharajas plumped for Federation, chiefly in order to be early on a bandwagon which they thought was sure to start. Today, five years later, India's potentates are getting restless on their motionless bandwagon seats. Significantly last week it became known that His Exalted Highness, the Nizam of Hyderabad, ''Richest Man In The World," now thinks he was "coerced" into approving...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: INDIA: 1933 & 1776 | 2/18/1935 | See Source »

...been intimately associated with the Harvard Athletic Association for over three years, the letter you printed in Thursday's issue of the CRIMSON was perfectly ridiculous. The sentiment is typical of the crowd of graduates who cry out at the least sign of athletic weakness and jump on the bandwagon to try to oust the complete coaching staff and the whole personnel of the Association. It is also typical of the undergraduate who thinks that because he has paid his tuition fee and is enrolled as a member of the University he should be admitted free to all contests...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: The Voice of Experience | 12/7/1934 | See Source »

...forces seeking a socialistic state. He is a respected enemy until, during the farce of the Wirt investigation, he denies his "anti-American doctrines," makes himself a laughing stock. Above the tumult, in Olympian inscrutability, Franklin Delano Roosevelt strides two horses running in opposite directions while a chorus of bandwagon riders, old friends, members of his family and the propaganda boys make ballyhoo...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: Old-Fashioned Democrat | 9/17/1934 | See Source »

...months ago Saar Catholics, offended by Nazi attempts to bring their church to heel in Germany, were expected to influence the plebiscite strongly, but by last week the poll seemed so likely to favor Germany that a frantic rush had begun by Saar citizens to climb on the Nazi bandwagon...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: INTERNATIONAL: Sore Saar | 8/27/1934 | See Source »

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