Word: stumping
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Chamber of Commerce of Jersey City, N. J., last week named a committee to investigate charges reiterated by one James Burkitt, shockheaded, stump-speaking realtor, that Jersey City's high tax rate is the result of a corrupt stranglehold upon Jersey City politics held by Mayor Frank Hague, Democratic boss (TIME...
Died. Holbrook Blinn, 56, famed actor (Salvation Nell, The Bad Man, The Play's The Thing), son of Nellie Holbrook, actress and Republican campaign stump speaker; of blood poisoning; at Croton-on-Hudson...
Louisville heard the roar of airplanes, the rumble of private railroad cars, and knew that Indiana's 89 realtors had arrived for the convention of the National Association of Real Estate Boards. Marion Stump, chosen to sing the praises of Indianapolis corner lots and bungalows, hoped to win the bitterly-fought "home town talk" contest. Hoosiers, among others, learned that the woman in the family buys the house, after considering these advantages: accessibility to golf courses, colored tile bathrooms, low window sills...
...boss was a big jackpot. I happened to be the only man around the table who had openers." Once, also, he was the only man present in an emergency when two cars of a moving train had to be uncoupled, a distinction which cost him a leg. Watching him stump cheerily about the hall, coralling his Cook County forces, delegates reserve their sympathy for Oklahoma's Gore, who lost both eyes as a child, one by a playmate's stick, the other by an arrow from a crossbow...
...course, Edwin Anderson Alderman did not do all these things. But he took the stump, and his voice was sonorous. He asked for higher taxes and hence better schools. He got them, hissed though he was at first. Rockefeller and Rosenwald money began to go to work in the South. . . . And now magazine articlists call Dr. Alderman "the savior of the South...