Word: wagoners
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...what had happened. Even before MacArthur's entry into the race, Harold Stassen's free-speaking, free-spending campaign had won him thousands of new supporters. When MacArthur jumped in, his name became a new rallying point for many who had climbed reluctantly onto the Dewey band wagon for lack of anywhere else...
Southern politicians were still circling the White House like Sioux menacing a covered wagon. A lot of the hallooing after Harry Truman's scalp came from men who simply enjoyed listening to the echo, but last week the President heard one statement which hurt. Alabama's Senator John J. Sparkman, former Democratic whip of the House, and hitherto an ardent Truman supporter, demanded that the President remove himself as a candidate...
...American Public. The reasons for Clifford's success are not hard to find. He spreads calm and good will like a road-oiling wagon. At home he is a model father to his three daughters, Margery, 15, Joyce, 14, Randall, 7. When they were younger he liked to tell them stories; particularly the story about the boy with his finger in the dike. But when business was on his mind he sometimes lost interest in the story and began mumbling about a law case. "Never mind the law case," the children would shout, "tell us about the boy with...
...three weeks, they swam, hiked and fished, but mostly they explored. They took a trip in a covered wagon; they were shown, as well as told, what early pioneers had to put up with. They cooked their own meals, and put arithmetic to practical use by dividing pounds of hamburger by the number of mouths to feed. The sight, sound, and smell of trees and flowers freshened their vocabularies; watching lumbering and farming widened them...
...listen to the serenade of a pick-up band. Forty-five minutes later every white shoe and club tie in Cambridge was there, but for some reason the animals were not. A murmur of expectation ran through the crowd as a peddler passed by with his horse and wagon, but negotiations failed...