Word: stirring
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Illinois earlier in the week as a World Court opponent, President Hoover declared: " I have no doubt that the U. S. will become a member of the Court. ... It is easy to preach ... peace. It is easier still to engage in invective or vindictive phrase or slogan which stir national selfishness and self-righteousness...
...Parker, President Hoover's appointee to the Supreme Court. To Chicago he sent a message to Senate Nominee Ruth Hanna McCormick welcoming her as an ally against President Hoover's World Court Plan. He voted against confirming President Hoover's nominee for District of Columbia Commissioner. He started to stir up a Senate vote on Philippine independence which President Hoover does not want. He glared a silent threat at the London Naval Agreement which President Hoover had acclaimed as a peace victory...
...even the rose story was not enough to stir large numbers of voters. The outcome of next week's primary seemed to depend largely on organization strength. Mrs. McCormick had proved herself a remarkable statewide vote-getter in 1928 when she rolled up some 1,700,000 votes which elected her congressman-at-large. Now she has the support of potent elements of the regular state organization, including Percy B. McCullough, Chairman of the Republican State Committee, and Barney W. Snow, Chicago G. 0. P. leader...
...deep South last week, boll weevils began to stir for their attack upon the 1930 cotton crop. From ground cracks, from old cotton stalks, from patches of dead grass and weeds, the continental swarm of little quarter-inch beetles crawled out of hibernation to meet the warming sun, to twitch and test the long, sturdy snouts with which they will bore into billions of green cotton bolls this summer. Patient planters, breaking up their ground for the new crop, plowed legions of the pest back into the ground to destruction. But legions more crawled out prepared to multiply. Not plows...
...Senate, its nerves torn by spies and bomb threats, frothed at the White House scare. Some Senators had the feeling that President Hoover was trying to stir up more public hostility against the Senate, to create the impression that Congress was on a spending spree. Up rose Virginia's sharp-tongued Carter Glass to declare...