Word: bandwagons
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Last week the Roosevelt bandwagon, carrying no less than 231 pledged delegates, trundled into Massachusetts. There for the first time its progress was halted. Governor Roosevelt had been warned to keep out of the primary in Massachusetts on the ground that the State was still as fiercely loyal to Alfred Emanuel Smith as it was four years ago. Governor Roosevelt was persuaded to enter by blustering, self-confident James Curley, Mayor of Boston. Mayor Curley thought he saw a chance to ride a presidential winner and thereby become No. 1 Democrat of his State. Besides, Col. Edward Mandell House, quiet...
...attention to feathering a Cabinet nest under some other congenial Democratic president. But the apparent sincerity of his outspoken concern for the success of his party will probably carry even more weight with his former supporters and with those who are now content to follow the teetering Roosevelt bandwagon, only because the New York governor is the one prominent candidate...
Presumably Mr. Lewis was sardonic about it all. In that case, there seems nothing to do but go back to the village, hop on the realistic bandwagon, and bang, bang up and down the length and breadth of our glorious Main St., from which Mr. Lewis has so desperately and Nobely been engaged in extricating himself...
...participate in the fight with the Disabled American Veterans of the World War and the Veterans of Foreign Wars was tabled without the rank and file having an opportunity to vote on it. But the bass drum player who got on the D. A. V. and V. F. W. bandwagon late, is credited by you as having made possible a larger loan on the Government promissory notes held by all veterans...
Typical young Bank Clerk Lawrence Renney thought he was conservative, for months kept himself from climbing aboard the late great bandwagon boom in stocks. But when he succumbed at last, everything went his way. Starting with $42,000, his paper wealth amounted to $500,000 when the crash came and cleaned him out. By then he was living expensively, bibulously, had long been fired from his bank. The morning after one last desperate party he decided to kill himself, went up to the penthouse to step over the edge. But there a girl was waiting for him. She persuaded...