Word: drummings
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...when he was placed in charge of CCC work in Vermont. After graduating from Camp Knox School of Instruction in 1920 he spent the following year there as instructor. At the University of Chicago he was an instructor of the ROTC unit, and "in charge of the largest bass drum in the world...
...publication office complete type-setting equipment has been installed and a modern two-revolution cylinder press has taken the place of the old drum press...
...relief off the backs of the Tax Payers; that he was no radical, believed in Democracy, was abjured by Communists; that he was not to be confused with Sinclair Lewis; that upon election he would instantly pardon Tom Mooney. Lean, white-haired, hollow-eyed, he had no barkers to drum up audiences for him. Instead he charged admission fees, usually 25¢, for his meetings, drew greater crowds than any other candidate...
Wherever any President goes a curious crowd congregates; wherever a politician speaks a good campaign manager can drum up an enthusiastic audience. But the newshawks who followed Franklin Roosevelt across the country had never seen such crowds, had never heard such cheers as greeted him. Through Montana, North Dakota, Minnesota, Wisconsin, Illinois?at every city and hamlet there were people by the railroad tracks. Uninvited thousands drove hundreds of miles across the blistering plains to the places where he was to speak. At night by the lights of desolate country railroad stations, around bonfires in dusty fields beside the tracks...
Said Senator Elmer Thomas, who thought his beating of the silver drum last fortnight was largely responsible for this latest twitch of U. S. silver policy: "This move breaks the strangle hold of the world gold bloc and marks the way for a new money system throughout the world. The United States has set the pace. . . . Others will follow our action?or seriously consider doing so. At once they will retain all their silver and go in the market for more...