Word: stump
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Lady Cynthia Mosely, daughter and heiress of the late famed Marquess Curzon of Kedleston, continued her stump speaking at Smethwick near Birmingham (TIME, Dec. 20) in behalf of her husband, Oswald Mosely, who is seeking election to the Commons as a Laborite. Since both Oswald Mosely and his wife Lady Cynthia are regarded as dilettante Laborites, the jeers of the press were loud last week when Mr. Mosely's father, Sir Oswald Mosely, a peppery Conservative, attacked his son's candidacy as follows...
...Pike. That same day Betty's brother, Oliver Baldwin, like Oswald Mosely a Socialist son of a Tory sire, hurried from London to champion Socialist Mosely. Finally the Mosely cohorts were swelled by onetime Premier Ramsay Macdonald (Laborite). Smethwick bums and paupers cheered with loud good humor the stump speeches of this galaxy. Smethwick brats were soundly kissed by apple-cheeked Betty Baldwin and peftte Lady Cynthia Mosely. Betty Baldwin taunted Oswald Mosely with stooping to call Lady Cynthia "the Missus" for campaign purposes. That lady, indefatigable, harangued a Communist meeting; with a red flag in her hand...
...flattered fathers who had become outstanding figures in their communities. Even Governor Ritchie's mother and his private secretary, and Senator-elect Tydings had their backs slapped by Senator Weller's "personal" letters. These must have produced laughs rather than votes for Mr. Weller, who made no stump speeches. (On the Senate floor he has scarcely opened his mouth except to vote...
Doubtful States. Somewhere a wise owl once hooted: "That which is full of doubt is full of attention." And so it is with nine states where good and bad orators leap from stump to stump, where a casual epigram or a few kissed babies may make or unmake a U. S. Senator...
Indiana. (Two Senators to be elected.) Senators James E. Watson and Arthur R. Robinson, Republicans, oppose Albert Stump and Evans Woollen, Democrats. Indiana, too, was once a state thought safe for the G. O. P. Then along came a harmless-looking newspaperman, Thomas H. Adams, with a fabulous story of Ku Klux Klan "super-government" in the ranks of Hoosier Republicanism. His charges have not yet been proved, but they make good campaign material. Last week Senator James A. Reed, wary slush bloodhound, stalked into Indiana for one day, long enough to hear Senators Watson and Robinson deny any connection...