Word: wagoner
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...babies while a band played a song that was providentially popular at the time, "Oh, this is the day they give babies away, with a half a pound of tea." To spread the store's name, a team of eight dapple grey horses drew a big red wagon through New York streets, offered $20,000 to anyone who guessed the weight of team and wagon...
Proud Word. Despite all of the arguments of the political classicists-that party regularity and party responsibility are as essential to a functioning democracy as the secret ballot-"independent" had become a proud word. Some scarcely deserved the title. They were the merely vacillating who voted by band wagon, the uncertain who voted by a momentary fancy or prejudice against a candidate's accent or chance phrase. But the title also included the liberal with a distaste for the Democrats' cynical politicking and Government by crony, the conservative with a distaste for reactionaries and unreconciled isolationists still lodged...
...Henry Ford who made the automobile," it thundered, "but it was the Democratic Party that gave you the social system which enabled you to buy the cars." While Chicagoans headed home for dinner, the voice continued to sound. When traffic began to thin out, a powder-blue Ford station wagon with four loudspeaker horns on its roof wheeled off from Archer and Western and headed across town...
Last week, to the amplified tune of Goodnight, Irene, the blue station wagon blared its way around Chicago's South and Southwest Sides. At the giant Crane Co., Douglas shook hands with a group of independent union workers picketing the plant. He ate lunch with the firemen of Hook & Ladder Truck 41, to whom he admitted that he was feeling pretty stiff and sore. He had slipped and fallen that morning taking his bath. Spike pleaded with him to lie down and rest. The Senator napped for two ho.urs at the firehouse. Then he was off again with...
...Korean war. Scott Lucas went his weary, cautious way. He argued that victory in Korea had prevented World War III. He repudiated several important Fair Deal items such as socialized medicine and the Brannan Plan. The loyal and indefatigable Douglas chugged right & left in his station wagon, lifting his voice for Scott Lucas and the whole Fair Deal...