Word: stumped
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Republican Indiana. Republican Senator Arthur R. Robinson, campaigning for reelection, was viewed with alarm because of his past relations with proven corruptionists and the Klan. Strength to the Brown Derby thus accrued from the Senate candidacy of Democrat Albert Stump, as well as from the gubernatorial candidacy of Democrat Dailey (see above...
Died. Charles Arnette Towne, 70, one-time U. S. Senator from New York; of pneumonia, contracted while stump-speaking for Nominees Smith & Robinson; in Tucson, Ariz...
...Stumping up the Pacific Coast to Portland. Ore., Nominee Robinson turned east again last week. At Boise, Idaho, hometown of bearlike Senator Borah, he indulged in one of the most violent utterances of the campaign. Marking the difference between Borah the intellectually upright Senator and Borah the stump orator, Robinson cried: "The lone eagle abruptly ends his flight toward heavenly Utopia and swoops to perch himself on the filthy boughs with vultures...
...ursine figure and mighty voice have lately been seen and heard by great and demonstrative masses of the electorate. He it was who put a firm quietus upon the "farm revolt" at the Kansas City convention. He it is who is reckoned as Nominee Hoover's most formidable stump spokesman. A fortnight ago he appeared in Minneapolis on the heels of Nominee Smith. Some 14,000 loudly cheering persons jammed into an auditorium to hear him pound at the Brown Derby's position on the Lakes-to-Sea waterway and the farm problem. He also defended the Hoover reputation from...
...Nominee Smith's stand on water power and farm relief. He scoffed at Nominee Hoover's farm remarks as "meaningless" and flayed the chubby man for his silence on the power trust. While Senator Norris did not commit himself to vote for Smith, he will take the stump for Democratic Senators Wheeler of Montana and Dill of Washington...