Word: stump
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...that this supposition was "not of public record." At any rate, the Department of Justice is certain to have stirred up a real legal battle, in attacking a group of corporations, including the major companies of Standard Oil. As for politics, the suit should be first aid material for stump speakers, especially if Charles G. Dawes should prove to have any connection with the Pure Oil Co. The question will be extremely technical, so very few people can really know much about it, and politicians will be able to assert, very affirmatively and generally, almost anything they like...
...Regarding the demagogue on the stump, whatever may be his party, I want it distinctly understood that in the coming campaign I ask no quarter and will give none...
...once nearly adopted, at Madison Square Garden, where tickets will be sold at the old-fashioned or box office scale. Supervision of this bureau is to be in the hands of William A. Brady and L. Lawrence Weber, prima facie evidence that there will be a strong effort to stump the speculators. Mr. Brady has long been known as a foe of this gentry; Mr. Weber recently proposed a feasible scheme whereby they could be laid...
...prepared to end the interview, "especially in American universities, would be inestimable. I admit, of course, that a reformer who sits at a desk and evolves Utopian theories is, in the final estimate, useless. But once a student has achieved liberty of thought, his next step is to stump the country trying to convert people, and then he becomes a factor in the progress of civilization...
...other speakers were sent into South Dakota, and but a very few residents of South Dakota took the stump in behalf of the President. The statement that the campaign had been carried on by 'the most reckless and shameless use of money has no more justification than the statement with regard to the use of an 'army of orators...