Word: bandwagons
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...opposed the Presidential nomination of Catholic Al Smith. When Smith was nominated, Amon Carter's exuberance knew no bounds. In his exhilaration he shot his six-gun through the door of an elevator in the Rice Hotel. Last year he was an early passenger on the Roosevelt bandwagon, now supervises Texas patronage distribution. He sends long night letters to President Roosevelt at least twice a week. Once in a while sleepy telegraph operators at Fort Worth are roused late at night with a message back from the White House to Publisher Carter. The political bickering at "Shady Oaks" lasted...
...sweeping out the office of the Fairbanks Daily Times, later earned enough to put himself through the University of Washington. He first turned up in Washington, D.C. as secretary to Frank Sulzer, onetime delegate from Alaska. Last year he was an early rider on the Roosevelt bandwagon, got himself chosen to the Chicago convention as an Alaskan delegate. Manager Farley, impressed with his ability to forecast political trends, to find out what voters were thinking, took him under his wing. Most of last year's Farley predictions were based on Hurja calculations. After March 4 Postmaster General Farley took...
...scandals, on civil service reform, on party history. She was long publicity director for Washington's swank Mayflower Hotel, started a smart-chart called the Washingtonian which suspended publication in 1932. In 1928 Democrat Banister was strongly anti-Smith but cast no vote. She was on the Roosevelt bandwagon early...
...extending a rotarian handshake and clap on the back to anyone with anything to say. They aim not so much to start people thinking, that demands a point of view, and a certain amount of mental activity, but to find people who are thinking, to hang onto the bandwagon if there...
...unproduced plays is one about the political life of Woodrow Wilson. He has a home at Ashfield, Mass, where he golfs, rides, picks apples. During the War he had an office near that of Assistant Secretary of the Navy Franklin Roosevelt, knew him well. He climbed on the Roosevelt bandwagon early last year, worked hard at Democratic campaign headquarters. Last January he again traveled abroad where some statesmen mistook him for an emissary of the President-elect. In the Senate the cry was raised that he was a Roosevelt "undercover man" peddling the idea of debt cancellation to Europe. Indiana...