Word: stump
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...candidates travel on special trains so that they can stop by the wayside to make speeches and thus facilitate their business. Special trains are expensive. Cars are rented by the day and 100 full-fare railroad tickets are required also. James M. Cox spent $160,000 on his expensive stump-speaking...
...analyzed the situation which had brought about the depression in agriculture during the past year and found its causes to be the poor market for farm products, especially wheat, abroad. He declared that the protective tariff and discrimination in immigration justify farmers in demanding relief. He condemned the political stump-speakers who shout loudly for legislative remedies in order to gain votes. There could be nothing worse for agriculture than ill-considered legislation...
Last week, the Virgin of Guadalupe appeared at the village of Tres Bocas in the province of Vera Cruz. Daily her image appeared, at 8 a. m. and at noon, on the stump of a large tree in a cornfield. It would speak only to a native girl, aged nine, asking that a Church be built on the site of the tree stump...
William M. Butler, Campaign Manager of President Coolidge, announced that his candidate would not go on the stump, but would campaign by radio from the Capital. The radiocasters threw up their hands in supplication and distraction...
...Political Parties?, How Men Get into Politics, Who Picks Your Candidate?, What Is a Political Boss? (Chapter headings.) Much sound primary knowledge is included, combined with exhortation to good citizenship. Probably the easiest way to get the information is to give it to "Junior" and let him stump you with questions...