Word: stump
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...once been a "Lowden man" but had got a divorce from the equalization fee. Mockingly Secretary Hyde's archfoe, onetime Democratic Senator James Reed, used to greet him: "Howdy, Arty. As one dirt farmer to another, how's crops?" The same spiteful Reed on the stump referred to him as "a steam whistle on a fertilizer factory." Two years in the Cabinet, Secretary Hyde helped to pick the Federal Farm Board to rid Florida of the Mediterranean fruit fly, to make himself silly with charges that Soviet Russia, by short sales in Chicago, was deliberately trying to depress...
...write a weekly newspaper "feature" (TIME, Nov. 24) many there were who expected to see the Brown Derby perched jauntily at the top of every paragraph. Last week the first Smith article appeared in 70 Saturday and Sunday papers. Although Unemployment was the subject, there was no smack of stump-speeching, certainly no Hoover-heckling.* Indeed, Writer Smith noted that "We have had breadlines in New York City even during our most prosperous times." He chided the U. S. public for its short-sighted failure to prepare unemployment relief during days of plenty; upheld the President's request...
Ohio. So certain seemed the defeat of Dry Republican Senator McCulloch by Wet Democratic Nominee Bulkley that Chairman Fess suddenly dropped his national duties to go home and stump frantically for his colleague...
...sort of campaign footnote to President Hoover's addresses of the week (see above), Vice President Charles Curtis took the stump for some of the speech-making he is not allowed while presiding over the Senate. Opening Delaware's Republican campaign at Wilmington last week, the Vice President warmly championed the Hawley-Smoot Tariff Act in an address which was a composite echo of all the Republican tariff speeches he had been forced to listen to during the nine months this measure was before the Senate. High point excerpt...
Chairman Nye departed on a vacation to Wisconsin. Nominee McCormick took to the stump with the claim that the Slush Fund Committee episode had won her 50,000 Illinois votes. Whether it had or not, it certainly won her the sympathy of Citizen Calvin Coolidge who said in one of his syndicated articles...