Word: bandwagons
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...years ago. He replaces Henry F. Pringle, leaving to finish his biography of Theodore Roosevelt. Be- fore vacating his office, Editor Pringle saw published in Outlook the first instalment of his most recent notable acquisition, a well-documented, impartial survey of Prohibition by Author Charles Merz (The Great American Bandwagon, And Then Came Ford), able understudy of the New York World's Editor Walter Lippmann...
...Conservative party if not in step with the bankers? Yet they came out last week in favor of the scheme of two men he had called "political blackmailers" the week before. Can Liberal Lloyd George remain a Free Trader now that Liberal M'Kenna has climbed on the tariff bandwagon? As for Mr. MacDonald, acutely conscious was he last week that, concurrently with the bankers, the economic committee of the Trade Unions Congress adopted a resolution favoring the tariff wall. All England seemed to have become suddenly tariff-conscious...
...ever laid a claim to that virtue called completeness, relinquish it immediately! I was shocked, horrified, nauseated, disgusted, not to say alarmed and surprised at a certain small but ever so noticeable "faux pas" in your issue of July 16, where, on page 9, col. i, under the heading "Bandwagon" (O how it pains me to set this down!) you committed the horrible blunder of referring to Senator James Thomas (Tom Tom) Heflin -without (terribly so) the usual and customary appositional phrase which begins, "who mortally hates...
...Constitution to provide for direct popular election of the President and Vice President, "obliterating the useless and antiquated Electoral College." All this Senator Norris set forth in an open letter to a California friend, by way of letting people know that he was clambering on no man's bandwagon...
Leaving the Smith bandwagon in what they hoped was the lurch were...