Word: stump
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...last 12 years the traditional Senior "Class Day Tree" exercises have been held around the gaunt and rotting stump of the historic "Class Day Tree." This year, however, the class of 1924 will pay its respects only to the memory of the old tree; the tree itself will not be there. It was cut down last fall...
...This danger to the organizer and to those who hear him is no myth: I have been in non-union towns and cities where organizers have taken the stump to address the men, only to be promptly arrested and carried to jail. Time and again have I seen men beg to be taken to the station to plead their case in the presence of a magistrate before being placed under lock and key. Often there seems to be no local justice in our industrial towns. When the labor organizer is confronted with the situation of a mayor and local capitalist...
...only aggravates an evil. I am not a communist or a bolshevist, but I am sure that persecution only gives strength to these orders. In England there are far fewer of these elements than there are in this country, yet there the red flag to waved freely and the stump used often. England has a much stronger which in democracy than has the Union States...
...particular has become the stronghold of specialization. The "family doctor" of a generation ago has become a syndicate, splitting up, and classifying every human ailment into as many divisions as the famous butchering industry of the "Principles of Economics." The law firms of the forties where two partners would "stump" the circuit, taking up each case as it came to them, one for the plaintiff and the other for the defendant, have given way to elaborately organized systems, drawing such fine distinctions that the vague general head of Law is lost in the vast number of sub-headings...
Secretary Hughes' speech Monday night in Symphony Hall raised an old issue in political affairs: "the stump or the desk". Should an administration try to influence the vote on a Congressional election? This, of course, is primarily a question for the voters to decide...