Word: stumped
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...stock of 205 films in eleven other coast-to-coast cities, planned to include more cities as prints became available. Sample sights in store: Republican Presidential Nominee Alf Landon out to overthrow Roosevelt's New Deal; the rise of Adolf Hitler; Father Coughlin and Huey Long on the stump; the Midwest's bleak Dust Bowl...
...demoralized, feuding Democrats. First he held court in his second-floor Fairmont Hotel suite for a procession of party leaders. Then he dropped down to the Fairmont's soft-lighted Gold Room for a lunch of crabmeat cocktail and turkey breast, and a full-throated political stump speech to Democrats from eleven Western states, Hawaii and Alaska...
...proposal brought an upwelling of boos. But V.F.W. Commander in Chief Charles C. Rails of Seattle quickly shouted: "I appoint you a committee of one to extend the invitation." That afternoon Joe McCarthy was reached by telephone in Boise, Idaho, where Joe was winding up a western stump tour. Joe accepted on the spot, that night boarded an airliner for Manhattan...
...squelched, though he had entered into an uneasy peace, Nye Bevan took to the stump to rouse the country. He opened his campaign at Ebbwvale, his Welsh constituency. He warned again that rearmament meant economic dislocation. Bevan protested that he was not anti-American-in fact, said he, some of his best friends were Americans. But "It is not necessary for mankind to walk the way Russia has walked or ... the way America still walks." Sevan's red-headed ally, Barbara Castle, M.P. from Blackburn and one of Labor's left-wing firebrands, went barnstorming in Lancashire...
Maids present at the meeting said they recognized some of the men who called on them as those who tried to "stump Sullivan" by asking impossible questions at the Friday meeting. Both unions are trying hardest to influence the maids, who constitute the majority of H.U.E.R.A. members...