Word: coattails
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...greeting me. I had presumed he was busy with deep thoughts. . . . 'Do they make good candy here?' he said. Before I could pull myself together and reply he answered himself: 'They must-my wife likes it.' " Crossing a street the President yanked Starling's coattail. "Better be careful," he said. "That was a woman in a Ford, and that's a bad combination. One of them struck me in Northampton and bruised...
...State. The Democrats took over Massachusetts' gold-domed State Capitol. Tub-thumping Maurice J. Tobin, 43, Boston's mayor for the past seven years, an expert machine politician and personable Irishman, won by an F.D.R. coattail over the G.O.P.'s Horace Cahill...
...They were opposed to the New Deal's centralization of government. Straw-in-the-wind: one of the strongest States' rights declarations came from Utah's Herbert B. Maw, longtime coattail-rider to the New Deal...
...Coattail Coasters...
Only experts knew that the Democrats had good cause to worry; that poor local candidates, bad local management, plain Roosevelt coattail-riding was throwing whole States away. As the voters moved off the fence, local estimates of trends set up the Nov. 5 results about as follows...