Word: stump
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...speeches newshawks plagued him with demands for the date of his first political speech. "About Jan. 4," he jibed. But last week when New England's birches were yellow, her maples orange, her oaks red, Franklin Roosevelt had lost his coyness about campaigning. He was out on the stump with other politicians, waving his hat at the electorate. His weekdays and nights were full of political speeches, bis Sundays with going to church, his face with smiles, his mouth with greetings to "my old friend...
Last May Socialist Laborite Nominee Aiken went to Manhattan, bought a second-hand 1934 Chevrolet and, accompanied by Herman Simon, a San Jose, Calif, school teacher, set out to stump...
...became apparent that Franklin Roosevelt was waging a campaign for re-election which at bottom was exactly the same as the Hoover campaign of 1928. In the White House, President Roosevelt might appeal to citizens' minds and hearts with lofty ideals and daring plans, but on the stump Nominee Roosevelt devoted himself exclusively to voters' stomachs...
...fashioned Democrats has the New Deal called to its defense, because on few old-fashioned Democratic Policies has the New Deal placed reliance. Last week, however, the one member of the Cabinet who has never been labeled a New Dealer was ordered to the stump in defense of the Administration. Obediently Secretary of State Cordell Hull, a Democratic classicist from Tennessee, packed his bag, boarded a Pullman headed for Minneapolis to speak from the very platform where Alf Landon spoke a fortnight earlier, to answer the attack which that Republican Nominee leveled at President Roosevelt's reciprocal trade agreements...
Last week Franklin Roosevelt demonstrated that he, no less than Al Smith, Jim Reed and Joe Ely, was ready to put Principle above Party. Into Nebraska went the Democratic President to stump for a longtime Republican running for reelection to the Senate against a regularly chosen Democratic nominee...